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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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R5a1a TIL co-founder of the band ABBA, Anni-Frid Lyngstad, was born from the union between a Norwegian mother and Nazi German father for a program where the Nazis tried to increase the Aryan population. Children such as her were open to receive nicknames such as “SS bastard”, “rat,” or “Nazi child.”
0w9EN TIL pineapple scales form diagonal rows corresponding with numbers in the Fibonacci sequence
wv11 It would take 1.1 million mosquitoes to completely drain a human’s blood.
VeDk TIL in 1968, 20-year-old Barbara Mackle was kidnapped and buried alive inside a box containing an air pump, a lamp, water laced with sedatives, and food. Two plastic pipes provided her with outside air. Her kidnappers demanded and received a $500,000 ransom, and she was rescued three days later.
VWZ4 TIL Uzbekistan executed two men by boiling them alive… in 2002