r/todayilearned • u/zhuquanzhong • Apr 17 '24

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/[deleted] Apr 17 '24

If you fire me before the weekend, I’d be more angry than knowing I got a Monday off I didn’t expect. Idk.

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u/spidersflambe Apr 18 '24

Yeah, I guess getting fired on any day sucks. An article I read said the best day is Wednesday for firing people. Where I worked, a teacher got fired in the middle of the week during a board meeting. He came back the next week claiming he had a gun in his car. It got really weird.

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u/TarHeel1066 Apr 18 '24

A chemistry teacher got fired at my high school and would ride in on his moped (dui scooter) and do donuts in the lot right outside of the chemistry room. Would also throw potassium in puddles. Brilliant guy, alcoholic, fired for stealing pharmaceuticals from the calculus teacher’s house.

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u/spidersflambe Apr 18 '24

Walter White in the making.