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TIL: Ohio class submarines have the potential to carry more firepower than most nations combined

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awa4J TIL 50s Movie Director Ed Wood was a secret cross dresser whose SO did not know, he made and starred in a movie about about a secret cross dresser whose SO did not know and cast his real life SO as the movie character's SO. She eventually rejected him in real life, just as her movie character did.
KO0EB TIL there's a town in Newfoundland named Dildo that's been around for over 300 years.
By1d TIL the Royal Navy executed an admiral for not trying hard enough, despite being brave and loyal. This inspired Voltaire’s quip “it is good to kill an admiral from time to time, in order to encourage the others”.
ONo7 TIL that the mathematician Pythagoras refused to ever eat or even touch beans. In fact, while being chased by attackers, he came across a bean field but refused to enter. His attackers promptly caught him and slit his throat.
rvB1 TIL a study published British Journal of Psychology concluded that those with higher intelligence don’t require large social circles to be happy