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TIL about Submechanophobia.It is a fear of submerged human-made objects, either partially or entirely underwater.

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KOPlE TIL in the 1980 David Lynch film The Elephant Man, Mel Brooks served as a producer but was intentionally left uncredited so audiences did not expect a comedy going in
JMkB TIL during the 1990s, anti-sweatshop activists from rich countries succeeded in shutting down sweatshops in Bangladesh, forcing thousands of children into prostitution, crime, and starvation.
wKNJ TIL in the 80s, DC’s New Guardians comic featured a villain named the Hemo-Goblin; a white supremacist vampire who drank AIDS-infested blood and bit black people.
nQBY TIL Abraham Lincoln and Charles Darwin were born on the exact same day.
mJeM TIL in roughly 800 AD, a nobleman was ordered to trial by combat against the faithful dog of a man he was suspected of murdering. The dog won. (more details inside, this really is a must read)