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TIL that Marineland in Canada kept a killer whale in a tiny indoor tank for 5 years without sunlight

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neaO7 TIL: 'A black sheep' is unlucky because its wool could not be dyed.
aarb TIL It was actually Jimmy Carter to handle and get the release of the hostages during the Iranian Hostage Crisis, NOT Ronald Reagan
4XJLN TIL Brøndby Haveby is a series of circular neighborhoods outside Copenhagen that act as vacation homes for nearby city dwellers
QBLa TIL that when the atomic bomb was first tested, one of the physicists, Enrico Fermi, had a wager as to “whether or not the bomb would ignite the atmosphere, and if so, whether it would merely destroy New Mexico or destroy the world.”
KOw64 TIL that Charles Joughin, Chief Baker on Titanic, helped passengers board life boats (forcibly boarding those who thought it safer to stay on the ship), drank a 1/2 bottle of liqueur, then threw chairs overboard for use as flotation devices, rode the side of the ship down while it sunk, and survived