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TIL that the Indian subcontinent used to be the largest economy of any region in the world between the 1st and 18th centuries

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pYv6Q TIL that the crew of the USS Triton were not told what the goal of Operation Sandblast was (a submerged circumnavigation of the world) until the submarine had already left port and was underway
lo7WG TIL: Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho was the first movie to show a toilet on screen
xVxdD TIL Siegfried and Roy were fired from their first gig together for bringing a live cheetah on a cruise ship.
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