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til: Cruise ships have their own Brig and Morgue as well as a few other surprising amenities.

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vLyK TIL we SURF the internet because of an image on a mouse pad. Jean Armour Polly wrote an article about the internet in ‘92 and was looking for a metaphor to describe how much fun and, at the same time, challenging it was to use the internet when she looked at her mouse pad showing a surfer on a wave.
x6gk TIL that it’s legal to kill a Scotsman in York as long as he has a bow and arrow.
yGav TIL Chattanooga, Tennessee has broadband internet that is 200 times faster than the national average in the US.
QJOMk TIL The World's deepest pool (60.02 meters) opened in Dubai with a warning to divers not to visit the Burj Khalifa after diving or they could develop decompression sickness, also known as 'the bends'.
ODy4 TIL: that the “women make 77c on a man’s dollar” stat is obtained by averaging out a random group of men versus a random group of women. When adjusted for age, same career and same experience, women earn about 95.9-92.2c on a man’s dollar. (pg 29 for statistics)