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TIL that the infamous RMS Titanic had a near-identical sister ship called Olympic, nicknamed "Old Reliable", that was re-commissioned in WWI as a troop transport ship and was notable for having carried over 200,000 troops during the war and sinking a German u-boat by ramming into it head-on

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x6Vag TIL: The color "Jet Black" comes from an gemstone called jet. Jet is extremely dark, and so jet black refers that dark.
9YPdG TIL in 1859 an American farmer in the San Juan Islands shot a pig who was eating his potatoes, but the pig happened to belong to a British colonist. The conflict escalated to involve 461 Americans & 14 artillery against 5 British warships with 70 cannons and 2140 men. The only casualty was the pig
6EXJZ TIL Bob Barker is part Sioux and spent most of his childhood living on the Rosebud Indian Reservation in South Dakota
LWWQ TIL that when Koko, the gorilla famous for knowing sign language, was asked where gorillas go after death, she responded by signing “Comfortable hole, bye.”
DR7p TIL that there is a hypothetical method of rocket propulsion that uses nuclear explosions for thrust