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TIL of the Challenger expedition which catalogued over 4,000 previously unknown species. John Murray, who supervised the publication, described the report as "the greatest advance in the knowledge of our planet since the celebrated discoveries of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries"

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R78g6 TIL - The people of Boston disliked Andrew Jackson so much that someone snuck into a shipyard and sawed the head off of a Jackson figurehead on the U.S.S Constitution and sent it to the secretary of the Navy.
E1wKP TIL that several ancient religions believed cats are exalted souls, companions or guides for humans, that are all-knowing but mute so they cannot influence decisions made by humans.
M7AeB TIL that the last Confederate forces surrendered six months after the Civil War ended after the captain of a rogue commerce raider, the CSS Shenandoah, circumnavigated the globe to finally hand over his ship to the mayor of Liverpool, England
e0Lrn TIL the plans for Winston Churchill's state funeral had to be revised several times because Churchill outlived several intended pallbearers.
Brvyr TIL Gordon Ramsey has chosen not to give his children a large inheritance, does not take them to expensive restaurants (not even his own), and does not allow them to sit in first class so they are not spoiled.