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TIL that Reynolds, the company that makes Reynolds Wrap aluminum foil, once built and operated a deep sea submersible. Called the Aluminaut, it was the world's first aluminum submarine.

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x6A5D TIL that Nobuo Oda is the longest serving death row inmate in Japan. He was sentenced to death in 1968 for killing a man during a robbery in 1966. While Oda has admitted to robbery, he has denied starting the fire with a stove. He is currently a prisoner in the Fukuoka Detention House.
WGM8 TIL Laverne Cox has an identical twin brother who plays the pre-transition version of her character in Orange Is The New Black
Kv9B TIL out of the 10,000 members of the Communist Party USA in 1957, 1,500 were FBI informants
QNgxM TIL: A blue whale's heart beats only 8 to 10 times per minute and circulates 5300 litres or 9326 pints of blood around the whale's body
rR0dy TIL about William Breckinridge, a captain of the Confederacy who later renounced the views that led him to fight for them and became a racial equality advocate. He also represented blacks in court as a lawyer and was even noted by a black lawyer that he had helped many blacks in their law careers.