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TIL that in 1941 the USS Fomalhaut was the largest ever ship to be launched using bananas instead of grease. 7,000 pounds (3,200 kg) of ripe bananas were used.

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ZpG9D TIL: Holy water in a container can be topped up with unholy water. As long as the added water doesn’t exceed 50%, the whole container is still considered holy water.
nWx8B TIL of the Bayside Canadian Railway, a 200-foot-long railroad to nowhere in New Brunswick, Canada. Due to a loophole in the Jones Act, cargo between American ports is permitted to be shipped on foreign-built vessels if at some point it also uses a Canadian railroad.
QQ4d TIL Frederick Fleet, the fellow that spotted the fatal iceberg that caused the Titanic to sink, survived and committed suicide 53 years later.
wolm1 TIL it's estimated that there's 20 quintillion animals on Earth
PYWOg TIL the human foot is one of the heaviest sweat producers on the body and contains 250,000 sweat glands. However, these eccrine glands produce sweat of mostly water and salt meant to cool you, and it has very little odor on its own.