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TIL Submarine R-14, after losing all fuel and communications, reached Hawaii by building a sail out of blankets

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M91K TIL that as a revolutionary, Josef Stalin was arrested and exiled to Siberia 6 times. He escaped the first 5. So for his 6th, he was sent to a hamlet just south of the Arctic Circle where he lived as a hunter gatherer alongside an arctic tribe for 2 years