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TIL The only children to survive the Titanic without a parent were two brothers aged 2 and 4. Their father kidnapped them from his ex-wife and boarded the ship with a fake name. The father didn’t survive and for weeks the boys were known as the Titanic Orphans until their mother was found.

TIL Texas no loner accepts last meal requests for death row inmates, after a murderer ordered a feast and refused to eat it in 2011.

TIL beetles make up roughly 25% of all life on planet earth

TIL dolphins can use their echo-location to examine an object, and then later have the ability to recognize it in person or on a video monitor.

TIL Mark Twain declared that he discovered the right way to do an autobiography by talking about whatever interested him at the moment rather than writing it chronologically. From his bed, Twain dictated nearly 2,000 pages of the book to his stenographer over three years

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