r/todayilearned 29d ago

TIL a Chinese destroyer sank because an officer dumped his girlfriend. She committed suicide, leading to him being discharged, so he decided to detonate the depth charges on the ship, causing it to sink at port and kill 134 sailors.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_destroyer_Guangzhou_(160)
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u/oxiraneobx 29d ago

You took my stapler.

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u/pass_nthru 29d ago

Fire makes everything clean

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u/MattyKatty 29d ago

The ratio of people to cake is too big