Four Favorite Facts From the Last Seven Days

When you went to the toilet on a World War II U-boat, you had to summon a specially trained member of the crew to flush it after you'd been. This is one of the jobs on German U-boats in the Second World War. There did used to be actual disasters that happened when people screwed this up. In 1945, there was a particularly bad moment where the captain of the U-106 submarine tried to use the loot because he was captain. So he thought, I'm sure I can flush this myself. He messed it up. And so they were all either killed or taken prisoner. That's the worst thing that can happen if you screw up going to the loot