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TIL that HMS Victory - which Admiral Horatio Nelson sailed to his famous victory at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 - is still in service with the Royal Navy today. She is the world's oldest naval vessel still in commission.

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J16bm TIL that in the United Kingdom, there is a section of a river called the Strid. It seems unassuming at hardly six feet wide, but at certain points the Strid reaches over 200 feet in depth. Air bubbles lowering the water's average density, you would sink like a rock into the violent currents below.
5D98 TIL you pay to have your star on the walk of fame in Hollywood. $30,000 to be precise.
69M4m TIL about the Rubens tube, also known as a flame tube, invented by German physicist Heinrich Rubens in 1905. A tube capped on both ends is filled with gas has 100 tiny flames that creates soundwave visualization
OG7ng TIL Saudi Arabia does not have a single flowing river on its land.
7r4VO TIL that No Kum-Sok, the first pilot to defect with an operational aircraft, received a $100,000 reward from Operation Moolah in 1953. He landed the wrong way on the runway: had he tried to land in the right direction, he would have been spotted and shot down.