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TIL a 90-Year-Old Lady Seduced and Killed Nazis as a Teenager

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rB9W TIL that since 1912, many impractical ideas have been suggested to recover the wreckage of the RMS Titanic, including filling the wreck with ping-pong balls, injecting her with 180,000 tons of Vaseline, or using liquid nitrogen to turn her into a giant iceberg that would float back to the surface.
x6j0o TIL HMS Victory, launched in 1765, is the world's oldest naval vessel still in commission. With 245 years of service as of 2023, she is currently the flagship of the First Sea Lord the Royal Navy.
e0k0J TIL the airport in which "The Terminal" was shot was a massive failure. Traffic predictions were grossly overestimated, the highways to link it to Montréal were never built and its terminal was insulated with asbestos. It hasn't received passengers since 2004 and the terminal was destroyed in 2016.
69WVw TIL Cremated remains can be compressed into diamonds. They’ve created up to 9 diamonds from a single person’s remains.
b9Bj7 TIL Although not audible to the human ear, the secret voices of plants have revealed that cucumbers scream when they are sick, and flowers whine when their leaves are cut. There's also evidence that plants can hear themselves being eaten.