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TIL The founder of Scientology fought a 70 hour battle with two non-existent Japanese submarines after operating his ships SONAR wrong.

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Y68P TIL John Oliver was recommended to Jon Stewart for a job on the Daily Show by Ricky Gervais. Oliver didn’t know Gervais personally at the time and had never been to the USA before auditioning.
ZpjGD TIL the German railway company, Deutsche Bahn, has computers that still run on Windows 3.1. They recently posted a vacancy for a Windows 3.11 Administrator with preference given to those who also had MS-DOS experience.
Bg7wx TIL When President Macias of Equatorial Guinea was overthrown in 1979, the army couldn’t find him. He was discovered 2 weeks later by a villager, wandering through the Jungle, alone and delirious with the entire country’s foreign currency reserves in 2 suitcases.
5Gkr TIL a boat named the “Eastland” sank three years after the Titanic because of new laws which required more life boats. The boat became too top heavy and sank, killing over 800 people.
X0GOj TIL that there are 72 names of scientists, engineers, and mathematicians engraved on the Eiffel Tower