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TIL An abandoned lifeboat was found on the world’s most remote island in 1964. Its origin is still a mystery.

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PYZ9E TIL That the number zero was invented in India more than a thousand years ago
jNG1X TIL the short-lived Korean Empire (1897-1910), eager to modernize, purchased a ship from Japan spending 30% of its entire military budget. It turned out to be a deceptively packaged cargo ship useless for combat. Japan later took it back after dismantling the military and colonizing the nation.
ZaOY TIL Neil Patrick Harris enjoys Red Bull so much on and off the set of How I Met Your Mother that he was given a lifetime supply of it and a mini-refrigerator by the company that makes the drink because of the amount of free advertising he has given it.
e0no4 TIL that John Steinbeck, when asked if he deserved the Nobel Prize for Literature, replied: "Frankly, no."
168aX TIL from the 1930s to 1960s pregnancy tests worked by injecting a mouse or rabbit with the woman's urine. The animal was then dissected, and if the ovaries were enlarged it indicated the woman was pregnant.