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TIL that the Hudson Bay Area in Canada has less gravity than the rest of the world and scientists do not know why.

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e0EaL TIL In 1992, a US- bound container vessel from China tipped over in the North Pacific. The ship was carrying 28,000 rubber duckies and other bath toys. They’ve stayed merrily bobbing, going where ocean waves take them.
dnmd TIL the biggest lobster ever documented was in 1977- 44 lb, almost 4 feet long, and estimated to be as old as 100 years. Records show lobsters reached as big as 6 feet during colonial times!
K7rE TIL 9 year old “Vietnam Girl” famously photographed after having all her clothes and more then a third of her skin completely burned off her body by a napalm bombing, somehow miraculously survived, then left Vietnam, and is now a Canadian Citizen working in Ontatio.
QJe4p TIL the movie "Gravity" was more expensive than the India’s first interplanetary mission, Mangalyaan with the budget for this mission only being $74 million
M7L60 TIL about the Ghost Camaro, a 1979 Chevrolet Camaro driven in combat by Danish Special Forces officer Helge Meyer during the Bosnian War. The black Ghost Camaro was stealthily driven at night to deliver humanitarian supplies to civilians, going where white U.N. supply vehicles couldn’t safely go.