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TIL that the Ukrainian Navy had Dolphins equipped with Pistols on their heads.

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W7paA TIL Peter Cetera of Chicago recorded the hit "25 or 6 to 4" while his mouth was wired shut from a broken jaw.
ea4L TIL that there were “Starvation Cells” in Auschwitz. The Starvation Cell was very simple - you were thrown into an empty cell, the door was locked, and you were left inside until you starved to death.
vPYDL TIL : Australia is wider than the moon. The moon sits at 3400km in diameter, while Australia’s diameter from east to west is almost 4000km.
JRdk TIL that postmortem photography or memento mori, the photographing of a deceased person, was a common practice in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
neVdW TIL Ray Bradbury took 9 days to write his novella, The Firemen, in the basement of a UCLA library on a typewriter rented for 10¢/30 minutes. After being urged by his publisher, he returned to the basement, got to work, and expanded his novella into Fahrenheit 451, which also took 9 days to write