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TIL Mallows Bay, the largest ship graveyard in the Western Hemisphere, is a National Marine Sanctuary due to the reefs the shipwrecks provide.

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x6VBw TIL The Apple program HyperCard, a precursor to the first web browsers, was inspired by an acid trip that Apple engineer Bill Atkinson had
Lx09 TIL AI researchers created an AI that beat the record high score for several Atari video games. The kicker? The AI learned play the games all by itself.
ADnla TIL that for centuries the city of Troy was considered a myth until it was re-discovered in 1871 in present day Turkey. The area had been excavated before but the ruins of Troy were beneath newer excavations and had gone untouched for millennia even though the site had people living on top of it.
0pDM TIL that the word ‘fortnight’ is just a contraction of 'fourteen nights’
KWM6 TIL that during Wagner’s lifetime, there was a widespread misconception that Wagner did not like applause at his operas. Frustrated by the lack of applause, Wagner himself cried “Bravo!” at the end of the second act of one of his operas, only to be hissed by other members of the audience.