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TIL that one of the strategies proposed for raising the Titanic before it fully deteriorates was to fill it full of ping pong balls.

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l789G TIL that in terms of deadweight tonnage, 40% of the world's commercial ships are each registered in one of three countries: Liberia, Panama, and the Marshall Islands.
Pe5E TIL in the 1970s the entire native population of an island in the Indian Ocean was forcibly removed to establish a naval base
vkg7 TIL that outer space leaves an aroma similar to burnt metal on astronauts space suits after they do a spacewalk.
VBGv8 TIL gas clouds in the universe are detected by not only their emission but also their absorption of starlight. The absorbed wavelengths depend on the elements and compounds in the cloud, as explained by quantum mechanics, allowing us to determine their composition through absorption lines.
EgO4W TIL elephants are the only wild animal that understands pointing without human training