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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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VMyg0 TIL Pablo Picasso worked up until the day he died at age 91; literally painting till 3 am on Sunday, April 8th, which was just hours before his death. His last well known self-portriat was done a little less than a year before his death, entitled Self Portrait Facing Death
xVWrk TIL Jackie Gleason improvised every time he said "Bang! Zoom!" in "The Honeymooners." The line was never in any of the scripts.
vZNK TIL That the tiny Caribbean island of Montserrat is the only county outside of Ireland that has a national holiday for St. Patricks day.
GA1lG TIL On March 16, 1988, Saddam Hussein carried out a chemical attack on the Kurdish population of Halabja, Iraq. 5000 People Were Killed by a Lethal Combination of Mustard Gas, Sarin, and a VX Nerve Agent.
0wJdR TIL the pocket calculator, patented in 1967, was one of the earliest uses of rechargable batteries. One of the creators, Jerry Merryman, saw it not just as a pocket calculator, but as an "electionic revolution," bringing buttons, thermal printing, and rechargable batteries to the forefront.