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TIL that on meeting Paraguayan dictator General Stroessner, Prince Philip said ‘It’s a pleasure to be in a country that isn’t ruled by its own people’.

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bgRE TIL matt stone and trey parker did BASEketball with the assumption that south park would already be cancelled
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J1M0B TIL that the modern assembly line was not invented by Henry Ford but by Ransom E. Olds. Ford then took the idea and improved it.
woVOJ TIL that in 1878, the passenger steamer SS Princess Alice sunk on the Thames right where 75 million gallons of London's raw sewage had just been discharged. 16 of the survivors later died from ingesting the water. In response, London immediately starting shipping its sewage out to sea for dumping.
neKYY TIL that in 1864, two ships were wrecked on the Auckland Islands at the same time and neither group were aware of the other. One group rescued themselves by sailing to New Zealand in a homemade ship; all five survived. The other group was rescued by a passing ship and only 3 out of 25 survived.