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TIL there are four sunken nuclear submarines at the bottom of the Atlantic Ocean. One, located near Bermuda, holds sixteen live nuclear warheads.

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4bO6 TIL that in 2010 starving bears in nothern Russia dug up coffins and ate the human corpses inside
YL4A TIL Wes Craven was able to blacklist Santa Rosa High School a once popular film setting location, because days before the filming of Scream, the school board denied filming. In the credits for Scream, Craven includes, “And no thanks whatsoever to the Santa Rosa City School District Governing Board.”
ADbEw TIL Transits of Mercury occur on average 13 times per century and the next will be on Nov. 13, 2032. A magnification of at least 50 times is needed to see Mercury appearing as a tiny dot against the Sun, which is 300 times larger
rRWl0 TIL that in one of the most unusual instances of "twin films" (movies released around the same time, about the same subject) both Kalifornia (1993) and Natural Born Killers (1994) were based on spree killer Charles Starkweather AND starred Juliette Lewis in the role of the killer's girlfriend.
x7R7 TIL the barking sounds heard at the beginning of Jane’s Addiction’s single “Been Caught Stealing” was the result of singer Perry Farrell’s dog in the vocal booth. He and his dog ran around the room and the dog started barking inside.