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TIL WWII ship wreaks are just years away from releasing ~15 million tonnes of oil as their hulls rust away. 400x more than the Exxon Valdez disaster.

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OoPge TIL that gay men cannot donate blood unless abstinent sexually for 12 months.
gMOxA TIL The German word Sehnsucht means "an individual’s search for happiness while coping with the reality of unattainable wishes."
WkBoN TIL 5% of people do not experience a headache in their lifetime.
VMXxG TIL when Republican senator, Jesse Helms submitted a 300 page packet to the Senate alleging Martin Luther King Jr. had ties to Communists in an effort to oppose establishing MLK Day, Democratic senator, Daniel Moyniham responded to the "packet of filth" by stomping on it in front of the Senate.
X099j TIL that Uday, son of Saddam Hussein, once tortured members of the Iraqi national football team for losing 2-1 against Kazakhstan, caning their feet and beating them up.