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TIL "flotsam" pertains to goods (i.e. shipping containers) that are floating on the surface of the water as the result of a wreck or accident. One who discovers flotsam is allowed to claim it unless someone else establishes their ownership of it. Even then, items may still be claimable by the finder

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R5E4 TIL the torture scene with the rat in the heated pot in Game of Thrones was an actual method of torture used during the Red Terror.
Xwgr TIL Shakuntala Devi, an Indian mental calculator,was asked to give the 23rd root of a 201-digit number; she answered in 50 seconds. Her answer was confirmed by calculations done at the US Bureau of Standards for which a special program had to be written to perform such a large calculation.
kOOEd Short answer: 142,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 Kelvin, give or take a few zeros.
4XAk5 TIL that Disneyland has its own color called "Go Away Green"—a shade that's meant to help things blend in with the landscaping. Go Away Green is a gray-green (and kinda bluish) shade, tested and formulated to blend in well among almost anything: concrete, landscaping, the sky, you name it.
1ay9W TIL A Former Marine made an epic beer run from NY to Vietnam in 1967