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TIL I learned about the 1881 Fenian Ram, the world's first practical submarine

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PYxjE TIL A Nigerian cook survived 60 hours in an overturned tugboat at the bottom of the Atlantic ocean, and rescue divers were startled when the cook's hand grabbed them as they did a 'body recovery' dive
E17kP TIL that the producers of Never Gonna Give you Up were the same ones that made You Spin Me Round
X7rP TIL that all birds of prey check over their shoulders for other predators before striking - except for eagles
Wk7Wo TIL, in Interstellar the depiction of a black hole required completely new CGI rendering software and was so accurate that it provided enough scientifical insight to publish three scientific papers
P19EL TIL about the forced expulsion of the Chagossians, when the UK, at the request of the US, began expelling the native inhabitants of the Chagos Archipelago in 1968. The entire population of the Chagos was removed to Mauritius and the Seychelles by 1973