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TIL The US Navy still operates wooden ships.

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xVZk0 TIL before The Who chose to do the "obelisk" cover of Who's Next, proposed cover ideas included a naked overweight woman with The Who members' faces in place of her genitalia.
ne5LW TIL The house band in The Muppet Show was called Dr. Teeth and the Electric Mayhem.
D1OkP TIL about Arthur John Priest, a "fireman" who survived the sinking of the Titanic...and FIVE OTHER disasters at sea before and after.
v8Dr TIL there used to be “party lines” for telephones, the entire neighborhood was linked to a single phone line and they had to take turns using the phone. You could listen in to your neighbors’ calls, or interrupt them telling them to get off the phone because they talk too much and you need to use it
8amrb TIL a male baboon in Australia being transported from a research facility to get a vasectomy escaped with 2 female baboons when their cage broke. The trio was captured after 2 hrs of freedom & the vasectomy was postponed. The females reportedly had been brought along to reduce the male's stress.