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TIL: About the USS Wolverine a aircraft carrier during WWII with the purpose training Navy pilots, along with the USS Sable they trained over 17,000 pilots and landing signal officers, also they were the only freshwater, coal-fired, side paddle-wheel aircraft carriers used by the United States Navy.

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BMMK TIL Stephen Hawking has survived for over 50 years after being diagnosed with a disease that only 4% of people survive 10 years with.
grWAL TIL that Western countries are sending their old digital appliances to a graveyard of electronics near the Ghanaian capital Accra. After arriving at the dump the old divices are dismantled for scrap. Work at the waste site is toxic but locals often use kids to do the job.
mx7Bp TIL in 2007 six US cruise missiles with the nuclear warheads were mistakenly loaded onto a bomber, not reported missing, and remained mounted for 36 hours with no security precautions for nuclear weapons implemented.
69WbW TIL about Intercollegiate Meat Judging. Where American Universities compete against one another to see which team can best evaluate cuts of beef, pork and lamb based on criteria such as quality, yield grading, and eye-balling the quantity of fat v. muscle.
69A5w TIL in September 1968, Russian cosmonauts fooled NASA into thinking they were landing on the moon using radio relays from Zond 5, the first spacecraft to orbit the moon. The cosmonauts knew they would never make it to the moon so they decided to engage in “a little bit of hooliganism.”