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TIL the CSS Shenandoah fired last shots of US Civil War in Russian territory

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D16ne TIL Emily Blunt was supposed to play Natasha Romanoff (Black Widow) in the MCU. But she had to be in a film she "didn't want" to be in. This is because of her contractual obligation to be in Gulliver's Travels.
v1owx TIL that the city of Doncaster has road gritters named “Gritsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Anti-Slip Machiney”, “David Plowie”, “Brad Grit”, “Gritney Spears”, and “Usain Salt”.
awbLb Til that there are huge, diverse 'kelp forests' underwater stretching for thousands of miles, found around coastlines on every continent except Antarctica. Darwin said of their ecosystem "I can only compare these great aquatic forests with the terrestrial ones in the intertropical regions."
GY04J TIL The Hawaiian Kingdom sells government bonds similar to US government bonds, but they can only be redeemed after "the United States of America's military occupation of the Hawaiian Islands has come to an end"
LZQr TIL that Matt Damon, when asked why he accepted his role in Saving Private Ryan, responded: “It was offered to me. When Spielberg says jump, bitches say how high?”