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TIL that the British made war ships for the confederacy during the American Civil War

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wQdE TIL: During the American Civil War, the king of Russia sent warships to protect New York City in case of a French or British sneak attack against the USA.
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pD9e TIL one of Jupiter’s moon’s, Io, is the driest thing and most geologically active object in the Solar System
b9M8p TIL In 2005 researchers made a groundbreaking discovery of a novel gene that causes cancer when mutated and tried naming the gene Pokemon but were promptly threatened with a lawsuit by Pokemon USA because the company "did not want Pokemon associated with cancer"
9w5QQ TIL in 2015, a woman's parachute failed to deploy while skydiving, surviving with life-threatening injuries. Days before, she survived a mysterious gas leak at her house. Both were later found to be intentional murder plots by her husband.