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TIL : An Indian sub required 10 months of repair because someone left a hatch open.

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eEnL TIL the rebounding force of a rope breaking in a match of tug of war severed the arm of each of the men at the front
jw8Q TIL that an 8-year old Slash once caught David Bowie naked in bed with his mom.
8ag1K TIL in 2005 the president of Georgia fired the country's entire traffic police force of around 30,000 officers due to widespread corruption.
9YOG TIL that there is a shipwreck in the Thames Estuary containing at least 1,400 tonnes of TNT high explosives including 2,000 cases of cluster bombs and if it exploded could be one of the largest non-nuclear explosions ever and create a small tsunami.
a8NYL TIL the author of the opinion in US v. The Amistad, Justice Joseph Story, was played by retired Justice Harry Blackmun in the movie "Amistad"