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TIL The oldest house structure in the world is the 15,000 years old one made of mammoth bones found near Kyiv, Ukraine

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ne0JG TIL early WWII torpedoes were so unreliable that on one patrol, the USS Tinosa fired 15 torpedoes with only 2 exploding. Earlier, the USS Sargo fired 13 torpedoes with zero successes.
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