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TIL the US Navy had one deep-water, nuclear-powered submarine, the NR-1, but it was decommissioned 2008

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dDyb9 TIL Wolverine almost a cameo in Spider-Man 1, Hugh Jackman travelled to New York to film a scene but the idea was scrapped when the production team realized they had lost Wolverine's suit
YpX0G TIL Uranus and Neptune are not "Gas Giants" as is commonly believed, but belong to a separate category of giant planets called "Ice Giants." This is because less than 20% of their mass is made up of hydrogen and helium. True gas giants like Jupiter and Saturn are over 90% hydrogen and helium.
nAP9 TIL Bats are not even remotely related to rodents, but are instead closer related to primates and lemurs
NXy0N TIL the 2022 World Series was the first to field no U.S.-born Black players since 1950.
QJLR6 TIL there is a condition called chimerism(named after the mythical chimera) where people are born with two set of DNA because they absorbed their twin while still in the uterus.