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TIL One 16-year-old Titanic survivor at the time thought its sinking and evacuation was merely a normal procedure, although "a pretty hard way to get here." (to emigrate to the US)

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dDVoZ TIL about the Anglo-Zanzibar War, which took place on August 27, 1896. It was just a thirty-eight minute war between the British Empire and the East African island nation of Zanzibar, making it the shortest war in history.
xVGnk TIL: In UK the maximum amount of airtime allowed for TV commercials is 12 minutes for any particular clock hour
0dg65 TIL about a firefighter who confessed to deliberately setting 30 fires so that he could earn overtime pay
MRNA TIL There is greater inequality in Manhattan today than existed in South Africa before Apartheid ended
NXZbN TIL of Reeve Aleutian Flight 8 from 1983, where the crew successfully landed the plane despite physically losing a propeller, having the controls effectively jammed, and with the other 3 engines stuck at full power. The plane, a 1959 Lockheed Electra, still flies today with a firefighting service.