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jNydQ TIL that, in 2010, over a hundred bottles of 170 year old champagne were salvaged from a shipwreck. Scientists analysed the liquid and even let themselves each sip 1ml. Apparently it still tasted great!
lJer TIL that in 1933 a German scientist named a species of blind cave beetle after the new chancellor Adolf Hitler.
x6rwb TIL there is a Titanic monument in DC, funded by women, to honor the men of the Titanic who died so that women and children could live. Only 20% of men survived, while over 70% of women and children made it.
9wwoM TIL that the world’s oldest wooden wheel has been around for more than 5,000 years
OO6X TIL: the nazis intentionally flooded a region and introduced malaria carrying mosquitoes to stop the Allied advance. It didn’t kill any allied forced, but did kill 50k Italians.