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TIL that founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard, commanded a submarine during WWII. His performance was "substandard," and he almost started a war with Mexico by ordering his crew to fire on the Coronado Islands.

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YK4B TIL The City of Providence, Rhode Island doesn’t allow for overnight parking and tickets anyone who violates the rule. However, the city has no street signs telling visitors this, making $$$ off of tickets from surprised drivers.
O1dR TIL of the last Kauaʻi ʻōʻō bird, who was recorded singing a mating call to a female that would never come. It died in 1987.
8jQP TIL of Rosemary Kennedy. Rosemary grew into a rebellious teen so she was given a lobotomy and turned into a vegetable. During the surgery, she was asked to sing “God Bless America”, which the Doctors used to determine how deep they should cut - “when she began to become incoherent, they stopped.”
69RDJ Today I learned that being 4-10" qualifies a person with Dwarfism
e0j1E TIL that Mr. Toad has a headstone in the pet cemetery at the Haunted Mansion in Magic Kingdom at Disney World as a tribute to the now extinct Mr. Toad's Wild Ride