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TIL in 1982 the British navy mistook three whales for enemy submarines in the Falkland War and killed them with torpedos and an attack helicopter

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WvOY TIL There are still people living in iron lungs
JGj1 TIL that “You’re not dead until you’re warm and dead” - In a Norwegian study, 38% of “dead” hypothermia victims were successfully resuscitated after their core temperatures were brought up
pYaWp TIL that in the height of the 1930s depression, gangster Al Capone ran a soup kitchen in Chicago, serving coffee, donuts, and second helpings, “no questions asked.”
Q07e TIL that under Operation Dirty Trick, the US would blame Fidel Castro if the 1962 Mercury space flight, which was carrying astronaut John Glenn, crashed.
jN79X TIL the city of Venice is actually mostly on the mainland. The historic old town is in the lagoon (the "floating city"), while 4/5ths of the city's 260 000 residents live on the mainland where there are normal streets, etc.