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TIL the first military submarine, "Turtle", used bioluminescent fungi for lighting, and was designed to attack enemy ships by drilling into them before planting a bomb.

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XE956 TIL on Jan 23, 1960, about 9 years before the moon landing, Jacques Picard and John Welsch reached the deepest point in the ocean, known as The Challenger Deep. They descended into the Mariana Trench for 4 hours and 47 minutes in a submarine barely large enough to fit the two men.