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TIL that the Princess Taiping would have been the first traditional Chinese junk to sail to America and back—if it didn't get rammed by a Norwegian tanker with 30 miles left

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E1W9d TIL "Saudade" is the word for being nostalgic about past relationships that are hard to let go. It's the recollection of feelings/experiences/relationships/etc that brought happiness, but also the pain of separation from them. It acknowledges that longing for the past would detract from the future.
78rp TIL: Streetlight Manifesto dislikes Victory Records so much, that they will not release an album that is finished under said label. And if they have to, they will put it up for torrenting themselves.
woOaJ TIL there is a whale that roams alone and sings at a frequency no other whale can understand - dubbed 52 Hertz, he is the loneliest whale in the world
OKGX TIL that there used to be a six-wheeled Formula 1 car.
b9k04 TIL that a bone marrow transplant can change the DNA in your semen 100% to that of your donor.