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TIL that a patent on raising a sunken ship by pumping it full of buoyant balls was denied because of prior art in a 1949 Donald Duck comic

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VMLp8 TIL Ella Fitzgerald forgot the lyrics of "Mack The Knife" during a live performance in Berlin. She improvised after the first stanza and won a Grammy for the recording in 1961.
v1JBx TIL Britain is responsible for 63 independence day celebrations around the world. That is, on average, 1 Independence Day celebration from UK every 6 days through out the year.
rY5w TIL that in Switzerland, “Needle Park”, they opened up a park where it was legal to sell drugs to get it out of the neighborhoods and streets. It eventually turned into a place where junkies did their heroin.
VMNyG TIL We're taller in the morning than in the evening due to gravity compressing the cartilage in our spines when we stand up , sit , etc.
Wke0d TIL that Dolph Lundgren in addition to being a 3rd Dan Black Belt and '80/'81 European Karate champion, earning a Masters in Chemical Engineering, a scholarship to MIT, and becoming a movie star, is an abuse survivor. There can never be to many "strong" men like him and Terry Crews in this world.