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TIL that The Bounty which served as the pirate ship in The SpongeBob movie sank during Hurricane Sandy resulting in the deaths of two crew members

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J1KKl TIL that x86-based chips are slower and more wasteful in energy than their ARM counterparts, but Intel's dominance in PCs meant ARM chips never took off in that market. However, their advantages allowed them to dominate the nascent smartphone market.
oK4K TIL regular ‘condoms are too big’ for most Indian men. This is causing an 'extremely high failure rate’.
yQ1jl TIL That the bite force of an orca is nearly 5x that of a great white
QJYjX TIL: Antarctica was discovered only 201 years ago! 200 years ago, people discovered Antarctica – and promptly began profiting by slaughtering some of its animals to near extinction
eEx6 TIL that blond/blonde is one of few adjectives in written English to retain separate masculine and feminine grammatical genders