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TIL There was an abandoned Russian Cruise ship that refused to die, was left to float around the oceans, and may have sunk in 2013, but nobody knows for sure.

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loEo5 TIL: Human corpses keep moving for a year after death.
RjB4 TIL that the 100 richest people on earth have an accumulated wealth of 2.09 trillion USD. If they were a country, it would be the 13th richest country on the globe, just beneath Italy and above South Korea.
JYAXQ TIL that the oysters in Chesapeake Bay used to be able to filter the entire volume of water in 3 days. This process now takes nearly a year.
R7Z1w TIL of Glennon Engelmann, the "Killer Driller." A dentist by trade, Englemann was a serial killer who conspired with his dental assistants and ex-wife to kill their husbands in elaborate ways. Englemann would then take a portion of the insurance payout.
Xo86 TIL carrots don’t actually improve eyesight. This lie was crafted by the British in WWII to explain their soldiers’ super human accuracy at night and to prevent the Nazis from finding out about the real reason for their accuracy: they had developed radar.