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TIL: After Pearl Harbour, 3 men were trapped in the USS West Virginia for 16 days, unable to be rescued.

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78aWM TIL that Cushing, OK - pop. 8,427 - is the largest oil-storage tank farm in the world. It has about 350 tanks, operated by multiple companies, with a total of 73 million barrels of working capacity, and controls oil prices globally.
QNe9p TIL of Beatrice Muller, a New Jersey widow who became a permanet resident of the Cunard ocean liner Queen Elizabeth 2. When her husband retired the pair went on the ship's world cruise every year until he died on board in 1999. From 2000 she lived permanently on the ship until it was retired in 2008
wo06M TIL I Learned about Travis Lewis, a man who killed a woman, was forgiven and hired by the woman's daughter after his release from prison, then murdered the daughter in the same home 23 years later.
ADxa7 TIL twitter was almost called Twitch.
gMkQ9 TIL that when "The Flintstones" added the baby Pebbles in 1963, it was originally going to be a boy, until Ideal Toys pointed out that they would sell a lot more merchandise if they made the baby a girl, as baby boy dolls didn't sell well in that era