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TIL A German U-boat Captain improperly executed a toilet flush, leading to the sinking of his submarine.

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LngQ TIL: that when women were excluded from the World Anti-Slavery Convention of 1840 in London and forced to sit in a “no speaking section”, William Lloyd Garrison, the conference’s keynote speaker, refused to give his speech and sat with the women, “dominating the convention without saying a word”.
LQ0Er TIL that when Johannes Rebmann, the first European to see Mount Kilimanjaro, published his discovery in 1849, it was dismissed as a malaria-induced hallucination because it was believed that snow at this latitude was impossible. It took 12 more years for scholars to accept the mountain's existence.
wLa5W TIL About Scott Loxley a member of the 501st Stormtrooper Legion, a Star Wars costuming/charitable fundraising organization, who walked across Australia in full Stormtrooper armor in order to raise almost $100 000 for charity.
5V9bQ TIL the creator of the most used drum loop sample in music history, Gregory C. Coleman, died homeless and in poverty without ever receiving royalty payments.
8anoG TIL that Lake Superior is so cold that bacteria needed to cause a submerged dead body to float and surface is unable to grow. Due to this, many bodies from shipwrecks, such as the Edmund Fitzgerald, have never been recovered.