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TIL A North Korean submarine got stuck in a fishing net

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ePOL TIL General Motors used live animals as crash test dummies up until 1993 and once received a letter “so mean it ended up in the hands of the FBI”.
p8W4Z TIL a gentleman in the 1940s observed that the burr seeds that stuck to his clothes and his dog’s fur had a tiny hook structure. On closer inspection, he discovered the hooks were more reliable than a zipper. He developed a company popularly known today as Velcro.
6EX1w TIL emperor Hirohito offered to order all the Japanese to convert to Christianity to end the imperial religion, but general MacArthur refused, saying it would be wrong to force a whole nation to convert.
7rkMP TIL that there's a thing that can happen during rainy winters called "Ghost Apples." where the rain freezes on the rotting apple and then eventually the rotten part falls out leaving the the ice encasement, showing what looks like a "ghost apple"
16Op8 TIL that our spinal chord has consistency of a Banana