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TIL that eight NFL Franchises have two consecutive Super Bowl wins, with the Steelers doing it twice. No team has ever won three in a row.

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0wlwL TIL that the worst maritime disaster of the 21st Century was the loss of "MV Le Joola". Some victims were trapped in the hull for 4 hours before the ship finally submerged. Only 64 survived out of a total of 1,927 people on board.
kJ70m TIL about some of the names given to gene mutations bred into fruit flies by scientists. Cheap Date is a gene that increases susceptibility to alcohol, the Van Gogh gene produces swirling of hair on the wings and the Swiss Cheese gene produces holes in the brain.
nO5d TIL: “Go fever” is a term used by NASA to describe a few of their major disasters (Apollo 1/Challenger/Columbia). It describes a culture that develops when costs have mounted, and dissent is suppressed or ignored (due to group members not wanting to be seen as committed to the team’s progress).
oROVY TIL: Canada has a higher percentage of truck ownership than the US
69gaw TIL construction of the Manchester Ship Canal began in 1887 and took six years and cost £15 million at the time.