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TIL of the S.S. Eastland which became too top heavy and capsized killed 846 people after adding lifeboats to meet federal requirements after the Titanic sunk.

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69XPw TIL that after John III Sobieski of Poland-Lithuania defeated the Ottomans at the Battle of Vienna in 1683, the Kangxi Emperor of Qing China wrote an eulogy praising the Polish king. John III Sobieski later sent a portrait of himself to Kangxi.
w9P6 TIL that the film ‘The Wolf of Wallstreet’ was allegedly financed by corrupt Malaysian government money, according to US Justice Department lawsuit
nGro TIL there was a man-made famine genocide in Ukraine 1932-1933 that was hidden from media up until the 1980s
4XovX TIL of Forward Compatibility, the ability of a system to accept input intended for a later version of itself.
oRWKE TIL today in 1974 a U.S. Army soldier stole a Bell UH-1 helicopter and landed it on the South Lawn of the White House