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TIL that the last four-funneled ocean liner to be scrapped was the RMS Aquitania which was in service from 1914-1949.

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a8PKL TIL The Vatican Observatory is one of the oldest active astronomical observatories in the world, with its roots going back to 1582 The Jesuit astronomers have contributed to discoveries in many fields from the origins of our solar system to the structure of galaxies.
xRBg TIL the Last Words of Alexander Blackwell: “I am sorry for the mistake but this is the first time I’ve been beheaded.” Spoken after he laid his head on the wrong side of the chopping block, and was corrected by the executioner.
yQ0Lw TIL that scientists were surprised to learn about the frequency of the earth's magnetic field reversals, which has flipped 26 times in the past million years
kJ9EW TIL about Prions, an infectious agent that isn't alive so it can't be killed, but can hijack your brain and kill you nonetheless. Humans get infected by eating raw brains from infected animals.
j6P7a TIL that an irrational number is called "irRATIOnal" because it cannot be expressed as a RATIO. This is probably the stupidest TIL ever, but for decades I just thought a number was called irrational because it had a never-ending decimal that did not behave in a predictable, explicable way.