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

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1a8mP TIL The 2020 Census is happening now. You can respond online, by phone, or by mail.
BrZox TIL that Chlorine Trifluoride was so dangerous that the Nazis refused to use it. Due to unstableness, the chemical was unfit for weaponisation. The chemical burned at over 2000° C and was able to melt bunkers, tanks, and burn entire cities.
KOXAQ TIL that the alien in Alien was played by a Nigerian man named Bolaji Badejo. He died of sickle cell anemia in 1992, at the age of 39.
wA5M TIL that it was common belief in Medieval Europe that a magnet would lose its strength when in the presence of- among other things - garlic, goats’ blood and diamonds. This was disproved by surrounding a lodestone with 75 diamonds, then picking it up with a lump of iron.
xED5 TIL That in the 60s a dolphin that played Flipper in the TV show became depressed and committed suicide.