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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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6E1oY TIL: Survivor guilt is a mental condition that occurs when a person believes they have done something wrong by surviving a traumatic event when others did not, often feeling self-guilt.
oJK8 TIL that upon their return to Earth, the Apollo 11 crew were quarantined in a special facility for 21 days just in case they were bringing back any moon germs.
9gpX TIL: Martin Luther King Jr’s son met James Earl Ray asking him, “I just want to ask you, for the record, um, did you kill my father?” Ray replied, “No-no I didn’t,” and King tells Ray that he, along with the King family, believed him; the King family urged that Ray be granted a new trial.
oLao TIL that green Haribo gummy bears are strawberry flavored. The red Haribo gummy bears are raspberry flavored.
698Qw TIL that being able to roll your tongue is NOT a genetic trait