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TIL that three dogs survived the sinking of the Titanic

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5VB9Q TIL that Kevin Clash, the voice of Elmo, also voiced the Baby Sinclair on the show Dinosaurs
8r6b TIL of a chemical so malodorous that opening a container of it can cause people hundreds of yards away to notice within seconds. A soapmaker reported that diluting it seemed to make the smell worse, calling it “fearful”.
jNLpn TIL About Ibrahim Hamato, a para table tennis player who reached the paralympics of Rio 2016 playing with his mouth, as he has no arms.
EgYBV TIL Sully, the pilot who landed the plane in the Hudson notified a library about losing the book he borrowed from them about professional ethics after it sank with the plane.
yZPX TIL the Austrian village of “Fucking” is particularly popular with British tourists. A local tour guide said: “The Germans all want to see Mozart’s house in Salzburg; the Americans want to see where The Sound of Music was filmed…but for the British, it’s all about Fucking.”