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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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eaBE TIL that Saddam Hussein was distrustful of al-Qaeda and viewed Islamic extremists as a threat to his regime, refusing all requests from al-Qaeda to provide material or operational support
PYk4G TIL that Throughout the 1950s to the 1970s, the CIA operated a passenger airline company called Air America, which was responsible for allowing the US military access to places in Southeast Asia the Geneva Convention had banned the military from.
R7M08 TIL that Metro Meteor, a retired champion racehorse, has paintings that have sold for over $2000 and the money is used for treatments that are saving his own life
xV5RD TIL There have been several cases whereby identical twins are acquitted of crimes even though one of them is a definitely guilty as identical twins have almost identical DNA and legal system cannot afford to punish the wrong twin for the crime.
pEy8 TIL that the “Sheng Long Hidden Character” in Street Fighter II was a Mistranslation Myth