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TIL The underwater wreckage of Titanic will disappear by 2030. It's being 'eaten away' by a microorganism "Halomonas titanicae". Also known as the "steel-munching bacteria', they have a special liking towards metals.

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b6Zb7 TIL after the fires that followed the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, many insurance companies tried to avoid covering the losses, except for Lloyd's of London: "Pay all of our policyholders in full, irrespective of the terms of their policies." This cemented Lloyd's reputation in the U.S.
78l9b TIL that James Cook discovered the island of Tubuai, Austral Islands of French Polynesia in March 1777 but failed to actually set foot on the island
neP6G TIL that Nintendo forbids Shigeru Miyamoto from riding a bike to work because they consider him to be too valuable to the company and don't want him to get hit by a car.
N747M TIL Snoop Dogg tried to rent the entire country of Liechtenstein for a music video shoot
nejor TIL the land the department store chain Macy's owns is worth more ($16 billion) than the company itself ($6.4 billion)