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TIL that a US navy spy ship captured by North Korea in 1968 is still listed as actively commissioned even though it’s on display in the Pyongyang Victorious War Museum

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xvbD TIL that during construction of the Panama Canal, Ancon Hospital, one of the best hospitals in the tropics, kept potted plants in its open-air atrium in bowls of standing water to keep away ants, not realizing that the mosquitoes that bred in such water were the carriers of malaria and yellow fever.
4kmoJ TIL the band iron butterfly didn't know they were being recorded in the studio for 17 minutes when they played their now-hit song In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida; it went on to sell 30 million times
QNk06 TIL that the son of the victim of Indian actor Salman Khan's drunk hit-and-run has stated that he still watches his movies.
pLPO TIL that John Adams’s daughter was diagnosed with breast cancer and had a mastectomy without anesthesia in 1811
rKjW TIL that an ancient and mysterious ‘whistle language’ still survives on one of the Canary Islands, used to talk across their steep ravines.