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TIL about HSC Francisco, the fastest passenger ship in operation, serving the Buenos Aires - Montevideo route at 67 mph / 107 kph

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8VaV TIL of Krishna’s butterball. A giant 250 ton boulder situated in southern India, that’s remained stationary on a slippery slope for at least 1300 years, defying an attempt move it using 7 elephants and even natural disasters like tsunami’s and typhoons.
JPE8 TIL Venus spins the opposite direction as the other planets in our solar system and may have been a drifting planet we “adopted”.
j6BNp TIL 31 out of the 46 US presidents served in the military
b9jDZ TIL Brazilian priest, Father Adelir Antonio de Carli, died after he floated out over the ocean suspended by hundreds of helium-filled party balloons and crashed into the ocean
PYG6Z TIL that newborn giraffes are typically over 6 feet tall, weigh 220lbs, and will stand within 30 minutes of birth.