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TIL that the U.S. Navy submarine USS Grayback was sunk during WWII with 80 sailors aboard and remained undiscovered for 75 years because of a single mistranslation in wartime records and was found within days once the error was corrected in 2019.
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 04:02AM by SwordfishEither2516
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TIL that during WWII, Britain planned to drop anthrax-laced pellets into the German countryside, where they could spread among cattle, then humans via the food supply. The pellets were manufactured and tested, and the operation fully prepared, but it was abandoned after D-Day.
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 03:10AM by xxwarlorddarkdoomxx
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TIL perfidy is a war crime.
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 05:41AM by DrumpleCase
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TIL only a single Kmart store currently exists in the continental United States. During its peak in the 1980s, almost 2100 stores were operating in the US and Canada.
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 06:07AM by strangelove4564
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TIL of Peter Feldmann, the former mayor of Frankfurt, Germany, who left office after a successful recall election against him. 95% of voters voted to recall him.
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 07:27AM by ThreadbareAdjustment
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TIL that in 2017, a Chinese woman received a refund for her new iPhone X after it was discovered that her coworker was consistently able to unlock her phone using the Facial Recognition feature. A replacement iPhone X proved to have the same issue.
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 09:29AM by eStuffeBay
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Mothership
Chinese woman discovers that her iPhone X can be unlocked by her friend's face
Apple says the chances of an imposter being able to trick the system are one in a million.
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TIL Early in her career, singer Sophie Tucker performed in blackface. But she disliked this work and would deliberately sabotage the act by revealing she was white at the end of the show. First by removing a glove to reveal her white hand and then pulling off her wig to expose her blonde hair.
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 07:08AM by Ill_Definition8074
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TIL Michael Mastromarino, aka the Bone Snatcher, was a disgraced oral surgeon who made millions of dollars illegally harvesting & selling body parts from cadevers. It is estimated that more than 10,000 patients received his transplants. He went to prison where, ironically, he died from bone cancer.
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 08:56AM by thenatural134
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Brownstone Law
Michael Mastromarino: The Bone Snatcher - Brownstone Law
Michael Mastromarino was an oral surgeon with a successful practice in the New York City area. Things were going quite well for him until he became addicted to painkillers in the early 2000s, and as a result, ended up losing his medical license after charges…
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TIL in 2024, an Indonesian man was stabbed to death at a party after a heated argument about whether the chicken or the egg came first.
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 10:15AM by NateNate60
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TIL IKEA estimates that it sells one of it's famous 'Billy bookcases' every five seconds (as of 2023)
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 04:35AM by Hambredd
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TIL that Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama hated the live-action movie “Dragon Ball: Evolution” so much that it brought him out of retirement and made him write “The Battle of the Gods,” widely considered a highlight of the series
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 05:11PM by altrightobserver
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Dragonball: Evolution Helped Revive The Dragon Ball Anime
These days, it’s more important than ever to remember a fundamental fact of the universe: it’s often darkest just before the dawn. Fans of Dragon Ball should understand this concept better than most, as they owe the franchise’s worst installment for ultimately…
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TIL that Tupanvirus is so complex that it carries almost all the genes needed for protein-making, blurring the line between viruses and living cells.
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 06:08PM by Forsaken-Peak8496
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TIL that in the entire history of recorded history only 3 female Giant Stick Bugs have been seen in the wild
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 05:32PM by CocosAdventure
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Science Friday
Behold, The Gargantuan Stick Insect
Only three female Ctenomorpha gargantua stick insects have ever been seen in the wild.
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TIL Before starting Gojira the band’s frontman Joe Duplantier lived in the forest for two years without electricity or any source or income
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 08:07PM by CrestonSpiers
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TIL that a group of ravens can be called a treachery, a conspiracy, a rave, or an unkindness
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 10:00PM by Longjumping-Tax3406
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TIL that Dirk Bogarde was so mad about John Mills' casting in "The Singer Not The Song" (1961) that he insisted on filming in custom-fitted leather fetish pants and loaded his performance with homosexual subtext. The movie baffled critics and became a notorious box office flop
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 08:27PM by bicyclefortwo
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TIL that the Governors of Vermont and New Hampshire both have shorter 2-year terms instead of the usual 4-year terms in most other states
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 07:49PM by tired_expert
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TIL about Nobuo Fujita, the only Axis pilot to aerial bomb the contiguous US. After the war, he gifted the target city (Brookings, OR) his family’s 400 year old katana. He was made an honorary citizen of the city before passing.
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 11:27PM by sgrams04
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TIL about the SS Richard Montgomery, an American Liberty ship that was built during World War II. She was wrecked on the Nore sandbank in the Thames Estuary, near Kent, England, in Aug 1944. About 1,400 tons of explosives remain on board presenting a low to moderate explosive hazard.
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Submitted January 13, 2026 at 10:57PM by NC_Phoneman
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TIL the standard movies jungle cry sound effect comes not from a monkey but the Laughing Kookaburra, a bird native to Australia.
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Submitted January 14, 2026 at 01:45AM by bz_leapair
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The Sound and the Foley
That Jungle Sound - The Sound and the Foley
Below is a clip from the opening of Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). The scene is set deep within the jungles of South America, and the sound department is ensuring that we know it’s
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TIL the Sargasso Sea is the only sea on earth not bounded by land - instead is defined by four currents in the Atlantic Ocean. Contains unique sea weed.
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Submitted January 14, 2026 at 04:02AM by Crystal-Ammunition
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