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TIL that a German submarine was forced to surface and subsequently bombed, because a crew member made a mistake while using the toilet. Instead of flushing, he opened a valve that flooded the u-boats batteries, casuing them to create a deadly gas.

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m1pvO TIL of Haitian mud cookies or bonbon te. The cookies — made of dirt, butter and salt — hold little nutritional value, but manage to keep dirt poor Haitians alive. Still on a per capita basis, Haiti is richer than countries like Pakistan, Nigeria, or the Congo. The taste of dirt lingers for ho urs.
Z8elY TIL: Like all male Swiss citizens, Roger Federer was subject to compulsory military service in the Swiss Armed Forces. However, he was ruled "unsuitable" due to an unspecified injury. Instead he served in the civil protection force & was required to pay 3% of his taxable income as an alternative.
61Y8 TIL In the late 70’s, in protest of homosexuality being classified as an illness in Sweden, Swedes called in sick for work with a case of “feeling a bit homosexual”
b1PQ TIL @ 2009 with movies like “Beverly Hills Chihuahua”, “Legally Blonde” and stars like Paris Hilton, California animal shelters were overpopulated with Chihuahuas. Several rescue organizations took these Chihuahua, flew them to cities in the East Coast where there was a Chihuahua deficit.
BoKK TIL NASA will send a probe to an asteroid, land on it, and harvest a boulder from it. Then bring it into the moon’s orbit for spacewalking astronauts to collect samples.