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TIL in an attempt to trim out the listing Yamato, Japan's super battleship, the captain flooded the outer engine room, drowning three hundred men at their stations.

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NXdBQ TIL Pasteurization has been used by the Chinese to preserve wine since atleast 1117 CE. The Japanese started pasteurizing alcohol sometime before 1618. European experiments with pasteurization began with Lazzaro Spallanzani in 1768.
0dG0N TIL that Strangler figs start their life as a seed on a tree branch, usually left there by an animal. As they grow, their long roots grow down along the trunk of the host tree, eventually engulfing the host tree trunk and cutting off its nutrient and water supply.
RlP4 TIL That the show Scooby Doo would have been cancelled permanently in 1979 had it not been for one major change in the series - the addition of Scrappy Doo.
epEJE TIL the first commercial airplane crash that killed more than 100 people happened in 1956 over the Grand Canyon. A Douglas DC-7 hit a Lockheed Super Constellation and crashed into a ravine slope at over 480 mph, while the Lockheed disintegrated into a cliff. All 128 people on the planes died.
9YdnQ TIL that a lemon is actually a hybrid between a bitter orange and a citron, meaning life never gave us lemons, we invented it ourselves.