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TIL that the first nuclear submarine used wooden bearings for its propeller; Lignum Vitae is the hardest traded wood, fourth hardest wood ever discovered, and is "self oiling".

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8adaX TIL because Tarzan wears only a loincloth, the Disney animators working on the character had to study animal and human musculature to animate him, making him the first Disney character to actually be animated with working muscles.
0wlr1 TIL that in 1695 the English parliament passed a law to tax all bachelors over the age of 25. The Bachelor Tax was later abolished in 1706.
DQwKP TIL that Wyoming spends $136,000 on each prison inmate annually, while Mississippi spends $18,410. The average state spends $45,771.
OGlLg TIL around the same time George Washington's family moved to Virginia, another branch of the family moved to the Netherlands and later became Bavarian nobility, the Barons Von Washington. Von Washington wrote to his relative(6 generations removed) asking to serve in the US army, but got rejected
6955Z TIL: Multimillionaire Maria Assunta, upon her death left her entire fortune of $13 million, all of her properties such as villas, homes, and land to her cat Tommaso, making the cat one of the world's richest felines. Just a few years prior, Tommaso was a stray cat she found in the streets of Rome.