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TIL When the USA decommissions a nuclear submarine, the reactor compartment will end up in a special submarine graveyard. It’s an open trench meant to be visible for treaty verification by satellite.

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vWJK TIL Paul McCartney didn’t allow the Weird Al Yankovic “Live and Let Die” parody entitled “Chicken Pot Pie” because he is a vegetarian. Yankovic, a vegetarian himself, said he respected the decision.
8aXlZ TIL that, in 1922, Governor of Indiana Warren McCray was offered $10,000 to allow the Ku Klux Klan to become chartered, but refused, the Klan later claimed he was involved in mail fraud, causing McCray to be found guilty and serve three years in prison, when he was paroled and later given a pardon
AQnd TIL For every dollar the US owes a foreign country, it’s owed 89 cents in foreign debt.
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AD6Bg TIL Denny's began in 1953 as "Danny's Donuts," then was renamed"Danny's Coffee Shops." After learning there was a local chain called "Coffee Dan's," the founders, neither named Danny or Denny, changed the name to "Denny's Coffee Shops," and later just "Denny's."