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TIL Pregnant Crash Test Dummies Exist

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a98y TIL that at the Sachsenhausen concentration camp where Jewish prisoners forged the perfect counterfeit Bank of England note, the prisoners marked them with a pinhole in the Britannia (Roman Goddess of Britain) on the note, showing that they were forged.
ppEO TIL it would cost $100 trillion to buy a 1 Yottabyte hard drive, the world’s GDP is about $61 Trillion
awLgA TIL - that putting sugar in a gas tank does not ruin the engine, and is no worse than getting sand in the tank.
OGBdY TIL about Dick, Kerr Ladies F.C. One of the earliest women's football clubs in England. They played from 1917 to 1965, playing 833 games, winning 759, drawing 46, and losing 28. In 1920, Dick, Kerr Ladies defeated a French side 2–0, that was the first international women's association football game.
8a9YX TIL about a fatal submarine accident from 1963. A nuclear sub, the USS Thresher (SSN-593), sank 610 m (2,000 ft) imploding in 0.1 seconds killing all 128 crew members. During a failed deep dive test, its theorized the sub lost power and its vital ballast systems froze, rendering the ship unusable.