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TIL: There is a submarine test facility in Idaho - History of the Navy test facility in Bayview, Idaho

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R5999 TIL that in world war 2, English soldiers would use passwords that had sounds that the language of the people they where fighting against did not have, so that they could tell if an unidentified person was an enemy soldier tying to infiltrate them by if they said these sounds correctly.
vP1wL TIL In 1978 a drunk guy tripping on LSD tried to blow up a dam in Nashville TN w/ his friends in order to loot the submerged town with through the use of scuba diving equipment
N7b68 TIL Many psychology experts believe the darkness in fairy tales actually helps children learn to cope with terrible things in the real world. As an example the Beauty and the Beast involves the exposure to ugly danger, the monster, and the triumph over evil, and then finding of the good in the evil!
XEGW8 TIL that in 2016 a class action lawsuit was filed against Procter & Gamble, seeking settlements for victims of chemical burns and rashes caused by using certain sticks of Old Spice deodorant.
xwX0 TIL: Stephen King didn’t tell his kids bedtime stories; he made them tell him stories.