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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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0woRA TIL that in early 1940, America sent a large research vehicle to the Antarctic which, when it arrived, was unable to move in snow and ice, except when driven backwards. The vehicle was eventually abandoned and has not been seen since 1958 due to ice shelf drifting and snowfall.
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