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TIL of the Narco-Submarine, a partially and/or fully submersible craft used by cartels to smuggle drugs while avoiding radar and sonar

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b67L9 TIL that the song Smooth by Santana-Rob Thomas is both the last #1 hit of the 90s and the first of the 2000s
l76RN TIL: Timothy Dexter was an eccentric businessman known for his improbably successful investments. He was fooled to send bed warmers to the West Indies (hot), but sold them as ladles, he exported stray cats to the Caribbean who used them to kill rats, etc. He also told people his wife was a ghost.
YpyJP TIL: The first documented use of toilet paper is from the 6th century in medieval China. By the early 14th century, they were manufacturing toilet paper at the rate of 10 million packages.
NZ08 TIL the Flemish anthem of Belgium is exceptionally bloody: “He tears, destroys, crushes, covers in blood and mud; And in victory grins over his enemy’s trembling corpse.”
Eg65w TIL Rap is an acronym that means Rhythym and Poetry