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TIL drug smugglers build submarines deep in the Colombian jungle, capable of transporting $400M+ worth of drugs and they are nearly impossible to detect. Prior to 2006 the coastguard called these “Bigfoot” thinking their existence was only a rumor.

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EKE7 TIL in the Brazilian translation of Star Wars, Count Dooku’s name was changed to Dookan because in portuguese “Dooku” can be roughly translated to “from the ass” or even “I do anal”
Medla TIL about the "Noble train of artillery" -- Where in 1775 Colonel Henry Knox and his men dragged 60 tons of artillery from upstate New York to Boston at the beginning of the revolutionary war
JZOk TIL When Peter O'Toole cut the top of his finger off in a boating accident, he dropped the tip of the finger in some brandy before pushing it back into place and wrapping it with a bandage. Removing the bandage weeks later he found he’d put it back the wrong way round
GY8w7 TIL Britain prepared secret ‘Auxiliary Units’ tasked with guerrilla activities in case of a full scale invasion and would operate behind enemy lines to cause as much destruction as possible to German forces and had survival rates of just 12 days if activated and lived underground.
neJLb TIL that during the Great Depression, the Hershey Company marketed Mr. Goodbar as a "tasty lunch" because the peanuts it contained provided added nutritional value. During the 1950s and '60s it was marketed as an "quick energy" bar.