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TIL in 1968, four submarines sunk belonging to Russia, the USA, France and Israel, with no clear and obvious cause for the sinkings.

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nWLW9 TIL - Back in 22 when India played against Australia in a pink ball test, they scored their 5th lowest in history. While they won the series, they lost a very important game which was not expected by fans. Plus, pink ball cricket is not something usual in everyday cricket.
yVOeV TIL. Babies have around 300 bones in their body at birth. As they grow, the bones fuse together and become 206 bones by adulthood.
KOKmE TIL The first high-level programming language known as Address was created by a Ukrainian Kateryna Yushchenko. It was more advanced than Fortran, Cobol, Algol which appeared couple years later
xVRjk TIL that on February 7 1981, a Tupolev Tu-104 passenger jet crashed during take off from Pushkin Airport near Leningrad, Russia, resulting in the death of all 50 people on board, including 16 Soviet admirals and generals, among them the commander of the Pacific Fleet.
b9EVp TIL Disappointment Island is an uninhabited island in New Zealand. In 1868, a steel tanker crashed on the island which killed 68 people, leaving the 15 survivors waiting 18 months to be rescued. In 1907, another ship ended up crashing there and 12 men drowned.