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TIL: There's a cruise ship tracker that shows all the ships around the world

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9GeM TIL about Schmidt won Jack Nicholson the 2003 Golden Globe award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama. Upon accepting his award, Nicholson quipped: “I’m a little surprised. I thought we made a comedy.”
nyg9 TIL that there is an (as yet) unreleased Star Wars TV series called Star Wars Detours from Robot Chicken creators Seth Green and Matt Senreich. Announced in 2012, 39 episodes were completed before Disney/Lucasfilm indefinitely postponed the series in 2013.
Rbd6 TIL that Jimmy Carter once left the codes required to initiate a nuclear attack in a jacket he sent to the dry cleaners
M7Nx0 TIL a volcano caused the creation of Frankenstein. Indonesia's Mt. Tambora erupted in 1815, and the next summer was Europe's coldest on record. Shelley, Byron, & friends were on vacation but had to stay inside, so they came up with scary stories, such as "Frankenstein", and the modern vampire.
yeVM TIL on the British version of “Who Wants To Be a Millionaire”, a man managed to cheat the game and win £1,000,000 through a simple system of coughs.