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TIL that the submarine USS Tang was sunk by its own torpedo.
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TIL that if you divide their net worths by their age, Carlos Slim and Bill Gates have each accumulated more than $100,000 in net worth for every hour they've been alive.
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TIL that The Animals' Eric Burdon is "The Eggman" from The Beatles' "I am the Walrus". John Lennon gave him the nickname "Eggman" after hearing a story where Burdon's girlfriend used a popper on him while he was making breakfast, cracked an egg on his naked body, and had sex with him on the floor.
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TIL it's likely that "lizard-hipped" dinosaurs such as the T-rex and the velociraptors were warm-blodded.
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TIL on September 7, 1978, a Bulgarian Dissident Writer named Georgi Markov was waiting at a bus stop in London when he felt what he thought was a bug bite. Three days later he died, having been shot in the leg with a sophisticated umbrella-gun loaded with a bullet containing ricin poison.
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TIL that in 2002 14 girls died in a fire after Religious Police refused exit to girls who were not properly dressed.