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TIL the SS Robert E. Lee was torpedoed by a German U-boat just 45 miles off the Louisiana coast in 1942. It sank in 15 minutes, killing 25 people. Decades later, both the ship and the U-boat that sank it were found just a mile apart on the seafloor.

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