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TIL shipping magnate Malcom McLean built the high speed SL-7 cargo ships only to see the '73 Oil Crisis increase fuel costs tenfold, forcing them from service. Next he bet the fate of his company on the extremely fuel efficient Jumbo Econships, only to see oil prices crash. US Lines went bankrupt.
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TIL: Edgar Allen Poe’s character Richard Parker who is eaten in a shipwreck in his 1838 book. In 1884 an English ship sinks and the name of the boy who is eaten is Richard Parker.
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TIL that the ring-shaped donut was invented by 16 yeard old Hanson Gregory. He hated how the original shaped donuts tasted raw in the middle - so he punched out a hole with a pepper shaker.