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TIL The US Navy declassified a BILLION dollar submarine secret after it accidentally appeared in the film “The Hunt for Red October”

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aw6l9 TIL of 52 Hertz-the loneliest whale on our planet. It roams the world's deepest oceans looking for a mate but it's unable to find one because no other whale is capable of understanding it's 52 Hertz call.
95BQ TIL IBM has created a solar collector that distills water as a byproduct. If we covered just %2 of the Sahara with these, we could produce enough energy to meet the needs of the entire world.
dDWR7 TIL that still being a desert, the Sechura region of Peru has been effected at times by flooding and storms from the ocean. It is a coastal desert.
BlwK TIL that Robert Plant donated money to a radio station that promised to never play “Stairway to Heaven” again
80G TIL that in New York City all you need to legally pop open a fire hydrant on hot days is to be 18 and stop by your local firehouse to pick up a spray-cap