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TIL that Charles Joughin, a baker on the Titanic, survived by getting spectacularly drunk

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LQPkQ TIL that F-111s conducted the longest fighter mission in history in 1986 as a result continental european NATO members closing the airspace to the US Air Force.
e0RbJ TIL Sherlock Holmes' address, 221B Baker Street, was originally fictional, as Baker Street's numbering didn't go that high. However, street numbers were reallocated in the 1930s, and the building that got Holmes' address had to get a "secretary to Sherlock Holmes" to deal with it.
yQdkV TIL that both humans and domestic dogs elicit a dramatic increase of oxytocin, the bonding hormone, from the other when staring into each other's eyes. Similar to a human mother and her infant.
WkkQY TIL that Indonesia doesn't really know how many islands she has.
9Yw4G “It’s not as silly a question as you might think,” says Michael Moore, a marine-mammal research specialist at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. “It would take some extraordinary circumstances, but any mammal can get rabies.”