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TIL Chicken a la Maryland was served on the last menu of the Titanic voyage, which is fried chicken topped with sautéed banana

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Ym8x TIL that Anna Paquin went to an audition of The Piano because she had nothing better to do. Selected among 5,000 candidates for the role in The Piano she earned the 1993 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at the age of 11 making her the second-youngest Oscar winner in history.
XE6ME TIL steel doesn't need to melt to lose it's strength. At 50% of the melting temperature it already loses 90% structural integrity.
QRdd TIL that James Watson, one of the scientists who discovered the helical structure of DNA, believes that stupidity is a disease and stupid people should be “cured”, people from Africa are inherently less intelligent, and that he would never hire a fat person.
wLVOP TIL scientists have begun using the soot on feathers of birds in museum collections to track changes in air pollution over the last century. The specimens yield very precise data on black carbon levels.
R5d0w TIL "Super Dave Osborne" is the real-life brother of comedian Albert Brooks