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TIL there’s a ship that’s designed to turn its bow up into the air, while the rest of the ship submerges, turning it into a buoy.

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M1pV TIL that President Franklin D. Roosevelt wrote three pages of detailed instructions for how his funeral should proceed, and locked them in the White House safe. They weren’t discovered until after he was buried.
p89x8 TIL that Pablo Picasso’s full name was Pablo Diego José Francisco de Paula Juan Nepomuceno María de los Remedios Cipriano de la Santísima Trinidad Ruiz y Picasso.
yVWXp TIL that the Presidential transition between Truman and Eisenhower was extraordinarily acrimonious. In their car ride to the capital for the inauguration, Eisenhower wondered aloud "what SOB ordered my son back [from Korea], just to embarrass me.” Truman replied "I did."
r5EW TIL Thrift Shop was the first song since 1994 that reached number 1 on the Hot 100 chart without the support of a major record label
v1M5D TIL the Rolling Stones’ first No. 1 single, '(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction', was written, in part, by Keith Richards during a dream. Apparently, while asleep, he started rolling a tape and playing guitar, and the next morning he listened back and was satisfied with about 30 seconds of the riff.