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TIL that after the Titanic sank, her sister ship, the Olympic, offered to take the survivors off from the Carpathia. This offer was rejected by Captain Rostron, who feared that asking the survivor...
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TIL the 12 oldest living people in the world are all women.
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TIL about Ghostwatch (1992) - a faux documentary investigating a haunting in the UK. It used real popular journalists/broadcasters and aired on one of the only four public channels in the UK where...
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TIL The largest individual marine risk ever insured was the RMS Titanic, which was insured for £1 million (equivalent to £124 million in 2024), which represented 20 per cent of the entire market's...
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TIL that Ken Osmond, who played Eddie Haskell on Leave It to Beaver, later became a Los Angeles police officer. He grew a mustache to avoid being recognized. In 1980, he was shot three times while...
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TIL the U.S. deliberately maintains hundreds of vulnerable ICBM silos partly as a“nuclear sponge.”In a first strike,an enemy would have to spend a huge portion of its arsenal destroying the 450 si...
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TIL that the largest Hindu temple outside India is in Robbinsville, New Jersey
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TIL that in classical Athens, a wealthy citizen assigned to equip and maintain a warship could challenge a man he claimed was richer under a procedure called "antidosis," in which the challenged m...
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TIL the English Crown was originally elective. A council called the Witan, made up of nobleman, local chiefs, and bishops, and chose and deposed Kings. They also advised and consented to laws the ...
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TIL about "Introjecting Voices" - which can occur when our minds have internalised other people's voices, attitudes, beliefs or criticisms until becomes part of our own inner voice or inner critic...
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TIL that former U.S. President george H. W. Bush was the sole survivor of the Chichihima incident during WWII, in which he and his 8 comrades were shot down during an air raid over the Japanese is...
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TIL that the individual world record for the most burpees in a 24-hour period is by female Eva Clarke of Australia who set it in 2015 at 12,003 burpees.
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TIL that after the RMS Lusitania sank, the enquiry recorded that the ship had been struck by two torpedoes, as survivors reported two explosions as it was going down. However, the log of the U-Boa...
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TIL that the band Duran Duran got their name from Dr Durand Durand, the villain of the film "Barbarella" (1968). Also, for their concert film "Arena", Dr Durand tried to murder the band in retalia...
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TIL about Waneta Hoyt. After her five children died before reaching 3 years of age, her case became the posterchild for SIDS and the risks of sleep apnea in newborns. However, years later, she adm...
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TIL that most humans don't just have a dominant hand but also a dominant left or right eye. Those two things aren't necessarily on the same side of your body, meaning you can be right handed and l...
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TIL about “Operation Snip Snip”, an anti-hippie policy in the 70s by the Singapore Government that mandated kempt, neat, hairstyles for men.
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TIL North Korea has outlawed the mullet haircut and skinny jeans because they are symbols of Western cultural influences.
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TIL The Victorious War Museum in Pyongyang, North Korea, has several exhibits about the 1950 sinking of the USS Baltimore by North Koreans. The only problem is that the USS Baltimore was mothballe...
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TIL that during the Middle Ages, it was a commonly held belief that Jewish men menstruated, with this notion spurning from superstitions believing it was a divine punishment and a lack of knowledg...
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TIL John Cleese's surname rhymes with "please", not "fleece".
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TIL that the Hugo Awards for science fiction are named after author and editor Hugo Gernsback. However, Gernsback's own science fiction novels are widely considered to be of low quality, and vario...
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TIL about Dear John letters, a breakup letter that got its name during WWII because "John" was statistically the most common name for American men at the time.
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TIL Antarctica is approximately 1.5 times larger than the United States
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TIL that despite being an absolute monarch, Tzar Peter the Great disdained ceremony and court formality and lived in a relatively modest home
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