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TIL The rubber coating of the sonar dome of the USS Stein was attacked by a giant squid, the evidence of which points to a squid larger than any discovered.

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aw9e9 TIL Japan bombed Oregon twice during WW2, then invited the pilot to visit the town 20 years later.
loVkN TIL that urine doesn't come directly from your digestive tract, but is produced by filtering your blood... Feels like I should have known that.
0dN0y TIL that WS Simkins, the man who is credited with firing the first shot in the US Civil War, also had a severe foot fetish and went on to fund a five-year expedition to find the perfect foot, which ended in failure.
PYG9g TIL that the Mexico City Metro has a different logo/symbol representing all 195 of its stations.
ADo1g TIL the Library of Congress has multiple crowdsourcing projects where anyone can help digitize historical documents. Active projects include transcribing letters and other writings from Rosa Parks, Susan B. Anthony, and Walt Whitman.