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TIL WW2 sunken ships are being "grave robbed" due to their incredibly valuable steel

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GYBRJ TIL that Jimmy Carter, the ex-US President who builds homes for Habitat for Humanity, qualified to command submarines and had a sub named after him (instead of the more traditional aircraft carrier).
e8P6 TIL that a cross between a zebra and a donkey can be called a zonkey, zebronkey, zedonk, or zebadonk.
akbN TIL that Venezuela is one of the most violent places on earth with a person being murdered every 21 minutes.
Mexb0 TIL of the Frog Boys, a group of South Korean children who went missing while frog hunting. 11 years later their bodies had been discovered, with police concluding that they died from hypothermia. However, a later autopsy revealed them to have been murdered, one with a shotgun blast to the head.
wWL1 TIL No studies have found MSG unsafe for consumption, and hundreds of studies have found it perfectly safe. Likewise, MSG’s common reputation as unsafe mostly stems from one person’s unverified complaints and speculation, and the substance has been considered safe by the USDA for 58 years.