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TIL that Portugal submitted an application to honour Magellan's circumnavigation route via the World Heritage List

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0daRL TIL that a ship's cat known as "Unsinkable Sam", survived the sinking of three ships in 1941 - the German battleship Bismarck, the British destroyer HMS Cossack and the aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal.
6ja8 TIL pants originally consisted of two separate items. & You put them on one leg at a time, then tied it around your waist, and then put on the other. Which is why we to this day, we say a “ pair of pants ”
8e1AZ TIL That Not Everyone In the South Supported the Confederate Cause. Newton Knight Was a Confederate Soldier Who Deserted and With 100s, Including Freed Slaves, Revolted Against the CSA Military and Established a Free State in Jones County, MS
VBKa8 TIL that there is a legend that the rising sun shines through the two-mile long Victorian railway tunnel in England on the designer's birthday, April 9th.
R55Kw TIL that Joshua Thompson sued Michigan AMC movie theater over the high price of concession snacks. He claims he used to take his snacks until the theater banned the practice. Thompson paid $8 for a soda and packet of Goobers, but he spent less than $3 for the same at a drug store nearby.