x6pm5 TIL Millvina Dean was the last and youngest survivor of the Titanic. She was just over 2 months old when the Titanic sank on April 14, 1912. Dean credits her father for her survival. She was one of 706 people — mostly women and children — who survived. Her father was among the 1,517 who died.
5VK89 TIL about Lucin (also known as Umbria Junction), a ghost town in Utah. Abandoned in 1936 by its original occupants, the community was resettled by 4 retired railroad workers and their families from 1937 until 1972, and again by 4 owner-residents in the 1990s.
M7Lw0 TIL Roman ruins excavations led to a cat sanctuary
j6p5j TIL that C. S. Lewis' first two names were Clive Staples
0dEOp TIL during WW2 the Nazis spent the modern day equivalent of 100 million usd to make a underground base in Poland which saw little to no use. Soon after building it they lost the war, and it is now one of the largest bat habitats in Europe.
grKD8 TIL about the Richat Structure, "Eye of the World" in the Sahara desert
LQLRV TIL There are more than 100 official Easy brands that aren't EasyJet
b6E17 TIL about the village of Chicken, Alaska. In 1902, When the settlement grew large enough to be named, there were many ptarmigan living in the area so this was suggested as the name. However, the spelling could not be agreed on, so they named it "Chicken" instead.
QNnVM TIL coelacanths and other lobe-finned fish are more closely related to humans than they are to other fish - I.e sharks, salmon etc
ANLdg TIL "Maryland, My Maryland" - the state anthem of Maryland until 2021 - is set to the tune of "O Christmas Tree." There also exist "Michigan, My Michigan," "Florida, My Florida," and "the Song of Iowa" - the current state anthem of Iowa - all set to the same tune.
yVLDV TIL that Halo 3 players worldwide teamed up in a "Great War" to defend humanity against aliens, with round-the-clock campaign shifts, killing billions of aliens, discussing it in 21 million online discussion posts, and creating 1.4 petabytes of data of 'service records'
m1pDx TIL there's a competition in Alaska called Fat Bear Week, where people vote for the fattest bears that are preparing to hibernate.