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TIL that there was a Soviet Submarine that sank with 34 warheads aboard. Those warheads are no longer there.

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x64AD TIL the jury in trial for Snowtown serial killer John Bunting were banned from listening to ‘Throwing Copper’ by the band ‘Live’ because Bunting played it to his victims as he tortured and killed then in his bathtub.
Wkjg8 TIL that British troops never simply marched straight into gunfire at the battle of the Somme. Instead, the reason for the staggering casualties was due to strategic blunders, the concentrated battlefield, and the preparedness of the German forces.
rN1Ld TIL that legendary University of Tennessee football coach Robert Neyland helped design the stadium the team plays in. The stadium was renamed in his honor in 1962.
5l5k TIL China banned Avatar in 2D because the idea of people siding with an indigenous population against an imperialistic force is something that the government was not comfortable with. The 3D version was not banned because there were very few theaters that had that support.
90gX TIL; Pill bugs are not ‘bugs’ at all. They are land-dwelling crustaceans.