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Paul Allen’s team finds sunken World War II sub in Philippine Sea

On Friday night, billionaire and philanthropist Paul Allen watched the Seattle Seahawks, a football team he owns, trounce the Minnesota Vikings 20-13.

But his attention was elsewhere — Allen was monitoring a live feed from the Philippine Sea where an expedition he funded had discovered the final resting place of the USS Indianapolis, which had been torpedoed by a Japanese submarine 72 years ago after a secret mission to deliver components for “Little Boy,” the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima.

On a scale of one to 10 — one being bored and 10 being over the moon — how excited was Allen about the find?