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TIL only once has a submarine sunk another sub while both were underwater

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neDDG TIL the reason backseat windows in cars don't roll all the way down is not in fact for child safety, but because there isn't room in the car door to fit the full window due to the wheel well.
rN0Gw TIL that, during the Cultural Revolution, ‘mango fever’ swept China after Mao regifted a box of the fruit to a propaganda team. A dentist named Dr. Han Guangdi claimed that the mango looked like little more than a sweet potato. He was found guilty of “malicious slander” and later executed.
dDerB TIL “Admiral” Dewey Phillips Traveled down the Mississippi River on a mattress
7r1vr TIL That Kyrie Eleison means "Lord have mercy" in Greek. It is an expression found several times in the Bible and in is found many Christian hymns including a # 1 hit by Mister, Mister in 1986.
O4A4 TIL of the London Monster who pricked his victims in the buttocks. When people realised that the Monster attacked mainly beautiful women, some women began to claim that they had been attacked to gain attention and sympathy. Some even faked wounds.