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TIL Modern torpedoes do not work by hitting a ship's hull. Instead they detonate directly underneath the ship, exploiting the "bubble jet effect"

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b9GjE TIL of remittance men - useless sons of Victorian British upper middle class families being given an allowance by their own family to be as far away from family as possible, typically settling in very remote parts of the British Empire.
7ojM TIL Dr. Allan Zarkin was so pleased with the caesarean section he performed, that he decided to carve his initials into his patient’s stomach. She ended up suing the hospital for $5.5 million.
kJ1jg TIL David Byrne was once mistaken for a serial killer influencing the song 'Psycho Killer'
086R TIL Within the first 3 months of 2013, UPS and FedEx owed New York City $2.8 million in parking tickets.
M7Dym TIL there was no use of green screen or visual effects in the music video for A Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton