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TIL the 80’s had awesome realistic water guns

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QJGnM TIL of El Mahrousa, the official presidential Super-Yacht of Egypt. It was built in 1863 by English engineers, it's the oldest yet still the 9th largest Yacht in the world. It has carried three Egyptian leaders into exile, ended a dynasty, and carried the Egyptian delegation to the 1979 peace talks
pmjO TIL that in 2009, within one month of each other, 16-year-olds in Canada and Taiwan discovered plastic-eating microorganisms that could potentially solve our plastic and styrofoam waste problems.
QaKp TIL Viggo Mortensen often spent days hiking to LOTR’s remote locations in costume, in order to appear authentically travel-worn.
Ag84 TIL in Canada apologizing for something cannot be used against you in court as an admission of guilt thanks to the Apology Act.
1JRW TIL Pope Benedict IX was Pope three times, sold the papacy, was the first resignation, and had homosexual orgies in the Lateran palace