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TIL there is a ghost ship full of diseased and viscous rats sailing the earths oceans, it recently almost crashed into a beach near Plymouth but missed and continued to sail.

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eVgb TIL Joseph ‘LA’ Hayward, The second Grand Wizard of the KKK, was a Homosexual and he and his partner were lynched after he admitted it.
YpYgP TIL Soviet Union spanned across 11 timezones with an area of 8.6million square miles with east to west spanning over 6500 miles and north to south spanning 4500 miles. Russia, the largest part of USSR remains the largest country in the world with an area of 6.5million
W1p8 TIL Stephen Hawking can only speak at 1 word per minute. He does this by twitching his cheek to control a cursor on a screen
KDV4 TIL that suburban neighborhoods were made to prevent people of being Communists. William Levitt, father of modern American suburbia declared: “No one who owns his own house and lot can be a Communist. He has too much to do.”
XEaoE TIL that last year in Denver there was a migration event for air mattresses. Resident Robb Manes was in his pool when two mattresses flew in. When he went outside there were 50 to 100 migrating across a field.