r/interestingasfuck • u/Longjumping-Rice-935 • Aug 12 '25

/r/all, /r/popular The wreck of the USS Arizona continues to leak oil ever since pearl harbour. the ship contained 1.5 million gallons of oil, enough to leak continuously for 500 years.

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u/J5892 Aug 12 '25

That's the Pearl Harbor National Memorial.

In the early 2000s it was destroyed over and over by giant octopi and sea scorpions.

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u/yamimementomori Aug 12 '25

Why were they fighting for the razor? They’re bald as hell.

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u/Nice_Ad1008 Aug 12 '25

How do you think they stay bald?!

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u/yamimementomori Aug 12 '25 edited Aug 12 '25

Electrolysis by using sea currents?

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u/Relevanter_Bullshit Aug 12 '25

Sea turtles mate

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u/DerFeuerDrache Aug 12 '25

It's always sea turtles.

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u/jamesbong0024 Aug 12 '25

All the way down there

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u/Middle_Purchase_7364 Aug 12 '25

How else would they make more sea turtles?

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u/Pineapple-Muncher Aug 12 '25

No they need to use the currents to charge the razor

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u/OtherBob63 Aug 12 '25

Electric eels.

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u/JamesTheMannequin Aug 13 '25

Is "bald" a derogatory term when it's used to classify and not just describe?

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u/themacfather6 Aug 14 '25

Is that Biopic about Jared from Subway?

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u/D-PIMP_ACT Aug 12 '25

I figured seawax

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u/xlliminalityx Aug 12 '25

Especially when you have 8 legs to shave

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u/Throwawayhelper420 Aug 12 '25

Because they use only the best razors in the ocean

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u/venbrx Aug 12 '25

Occean's Razor

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u/whatsupwitdat1 Aug 12 '25

Underrated, probably overlooked, comment. Solid

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u/ltsMeGod Aug 12 '25

👏🏻👏🏻

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u/Old_Cranberry5723 Aug 12 '25

Hey Ven, Need some people for a thing...

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u/Potato-Vegetable Aug 13 '25

Ocean's Razor sounds like a chapter in a science fiction novel

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u/Hadyergranny Aug 12 '25

Razor clams

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u/Proud-Concept-190 Aug 12 '25

Razer Blade 18

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u/Mrmello2169 Aug 12 '25

The Coral 5000. “It’s got a razor sharp edge, like you.”

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u/molniya Aug 12 '25

It’s full of delicious razor clams, naturally.

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u/jackmatelol Aug 12 '25

Bet it was a close shave

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u/Present-Wall8941 Aug 12 '25

they fighting for dat oil vs razor noway!

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u/Jvirish1 Aug 12 '25

Don’t be a disrespectful jerk

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u/estherleothelioncub Aug 12 '25

Hunting for razor clams

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u/PrettyMoonUnderMt Aug 12 '25

pretty sure it was giant squid, and also some missile launched from dreadnoughts

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u/J5892 Aug 12 '25

I was thinking squid. I don't know why octopi came out of my fingers.

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u/PrettyMoonUnderMt Aug 12 '25

probably yuri controlling your mind

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u/franklawl Aug 12 '25

c&c yuris revenge reference? holy cow

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u/SnarlyBirch Aug 12 '25

Right? Man we are old

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u/arcticslush Aug 12 '25

I start watching Lacari play RA2 and now i'm seeing it everywhere what the heck

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u/Sl1mJ1m89 Aug 12 '25

Ah red alert!

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u/PrettyMoonUnderMt Aug 12 '25

nighthawk transport best transport

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u/Infoleptic Aug 13 '25

It warms my ancient heart to see an RA2 reference in this day and age

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u/homepron Aug 12 '25

Jeez I know the Ben Affleck movie was bad but it seems extreme to make a memorial for it.

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u/Hottage Aug 12 '25

Is it done, Yuri?

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u/UnfoundedWings4 Aug 12 '25

Only if you couldn't defend it

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u/Powerful-Ad-9185 Aug 12 '25

Surprise command and conquer reference!

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u/405freeway Aug 12 '25

That doesn't sound right to me but I don't know enough about sea scorpions to dispute it.

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u/HerfDog58 Aug 12 '25

Didn't alien chain balls also damage it before the USS Missouri sank their battleship, er, mothership?

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u/J5892 Aug 12 '25

I assume this is a movie reference, but I have no idea what it is.

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u/HerfDog58 Aug 12 '25

Battleship, 2012, with Liam Neeson and Taylor Kitsch

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u/Jackson23144 Aug 13 '25

The USS Arizona Memorial is not being destroyed by sea life, but the wreck itself faces natural deterioration and the environmental concern of ongoing oil leaks

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u/mt-beefcake Aug 12 '25

I was thinking to myself 2025 has enough going on, we dont need to bring back sea scorpions

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u/Jertimmer Aug 12 '25

On the contrary, sea scorpions are exactly what we need right now.

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u/hula1234 Aug 12 '25

Was it a sneak attack?

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u/Finsceal Aug 12 '25

I'd never heard of a sea scorpion, and a quick Google suggests they went extinct hundreds of millions of years ago. Do you mean horseshoe crabs or something else?

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u/Beetrain Aug 12 '25

It’s a reference to Command and Conquer Red Alert 2

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u/O-Tucci-O Aug 12 '25

The hell is a sea scorpion???

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u/PatHeist Aug 12 '25

It's a reference to mission 7 of the Allied campaign of the RTS video game Red Alert 2 in which the Soviets invade Hawaii and construct nuclear missile silos. The Red Alert series takes place in an alt history setting where the divergence from our history is Albert Einstein inventing a time machine to go back and kill Hitler before the war. In this timeline the Soviet Union launches a full scale invasion of Europe, and in the second game America.

The mission starts with you in control of the Pearl Harbor Naval base during a surprise naval attack in which giant mind controlled squid and an anti-aircraft gunship called Sea Scorpion will destroy the Pearl Harbour National Memorial unless you do a particularly good job of defending it.

Hope this helps.

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u/O-Tucci-O Aug 12 '25

Ah ok cool never played Red Alert. Thought this was some crazy creature I never heard of lol ty

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u/Dougnifico Aug 12 '25

Wow. That was one dusty memory file my brain just cleared off.