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TIL A German u-boat was sunk by it's own toilet in WW2

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er76 TIL after an Indian king was insulted for his ethnicity by an employee while visiting a Rolls-Royce showroom in London he ordered that 6 luxury cars be bought and sent back to India to be used as garbage collectors throughout the city, damaging Rolls-Royce’s reputation and profits.
neVrY TIL that the day after the attack on Pearl Harbor, Jeannette Rankin was the only member of the US congress voted AGAINST going to war with Japan. "As a woman, I can't go to war," she said, "and I refuse to send anyone else."
6EvkZ TIL Purdue sales reps were taught to sell Oxycontin as less addictive than competitors, and addiction symptoms whilst on the pill was "psuedoaddiction" and to tell doctors that the fix for these symptoms was to push higher dosage pills to cure this.
KO6N4 TIL European Eels are born in the Caribbean. They drift across the Atlantic to Europe and then navigate up rivers to live in ponds & lakes. It is unknown how they migrate back to the Caribbean to reproduce.
awkRA TIL the Burj Khalifa in Dubai is so tall, you can watch two sunsets in one day. One at the ground level, and the second at the top.