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TIL: US torpedoes at the beginning of WW2 had an extremely high dud rate that took awhile to be acknowledged because the US Navy refused to allow live testing of ordinance as a cost saving measure.

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Br9Lb TIL Roughly 100,000,000,000 cells die each day in our body and are replaced by other cells. It's not uncommon for your body to replace an equivalent to its mass each year. The process is called Apoptosis, or "Programmed Cell Death" and plays an important role in preventing cancer.
0bQp TIL that while awaiting sentencing for income tax evasion and obstruction of justice, David Friedland went scuba diving, faked his own death, and fled to the Maldives where he built a chain of scuba diving shops, the success of which helped him get caught.
wrEE TIL a Sea Organ in Croatia continuously plays music powered by waves that flow through tubes located underneath a set of large marble steps
W9gA TIL: The Thinnest state in America this year is fatter then the fattest state was in 1995.
84Pb TIL the DNA information in a single sperm contains 37.5 MB worth of data. Which means that an average ejaculation almost instantly transfers roughly 1,500 terabytes of data.