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TIL The Powerpuff Girls broke records for the most Beatles references in one episode.

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8eexG TIL in 1945 a Nazi U-boat was destroyed because of a malfunctioning toilet
b6Pdp TIL there was a confidential Simple Sabotage directive for CIA workers to use in case of a military coup in WWII.
X0pMR TIL in Superman, it was such a struggle to cast the superhero, the producer's wife's dentist was given a screen test.
MEaV TIL Dwight D. Eisenhower said “The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this: a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants…It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals…We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could have housed more than 8,000 people.”