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TIL seamen must keep a daily record of their work known as a Certificate of Continuous Discharge

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awxpo TIL during the San Francisco plague of 1900-1904, the governor of California denied the existence of the place for two years for business reasons, to protect the reputations of San Francisco and to prevent the loss of revenue due to quarantine, allowing the disease to spread unchecked.
5VdNk TIL the first widely-reported recipe for "dishwasher fish" was presented by horror icon Vincent Price on a 1975 episode of The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. He called it "a dish any fool can prepare".
0jgy TIL During a 1978 Monday Night Football game, to fill dead air, Howard Cosell commented on a delicious new snack he was eating, thus stadium nachos went mainstream.
0YVM TIL: A prisoner was murdered by prison guards by spraying him with 180 degree water from a hose, choking him with steam, and peeling his skin off his body.
KYXGQ TIL in 2013 in Florida, a sink hole unexpectedly opened up beneath a sleeping man’s bedroom and swallowed him whole. He is presumed dead.