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The dizzying story of Symphony of the Seas, the largest and most ambitious cruise ship ever built.

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7r7or TIL: The 2019 show "Swamp Thing" was cancelled not long after it's 1st episode aired due to WarnerMedia not getting a tax credit from where it was filmed. Due to a paperwork error, North Carolina couldn't deliver a $40 million tax rebate which would have paid for half the production of season one.
neNVo TIL in 1972, President Richard Nixon called Miami Dolphins head coach Don Shula before the Super Bowl and recommended he run a certain play. The week prior, he reportedly did the same thing with the Washington Redskins. Both teams ran the plays he suggested; both plays failed. Both teams lost.
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7r1Xx TIL that during WWII, Turkey had agreed to export an extremely large amount of chromite to Nazi Germany (partially contingent on what Germany would ship to them). To stop the shipments, the Allies 'pre-clusively' purchased much of the ore, even when they did not need any more of it.