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TIL on November 11, 1918, the US Navy's 14-inch railway guns were last fired at 10:57:30 to ensure that the shells would impact just before the 11am armistice

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8aZo8 TIL that on two separate occasions (first in 1869 and again in 1912) the sitting president of Haiti was killed when a stockpile of ammunition placed in the National Palace ignited, destroying the structure in a massive explosion.
ne1EG TIL that in 2018, a woman in San Diego gave birth to a premature baby weighing only 8.6 ounces with a gestational age of only 23 weeks and 3 days. The baby is now perfectly healthy, making her the lightest birth-weight baby to ever survive.
5V1D9 TIL the echo effect used in Duane Eddy’s 1958 instrumental hit “Rebel Rouser” was achieved using a 2,000-gallon water tank the studio had purchased from a junkyard
N7M0N TIL that the construction of Brandenburg, the new airport in Berlin, is so behind schedule they will have to scrap 750 display screens which are now at the end of their life having being switched on for six years. Not a single flight has yet left the airport, and it may not open until beyond 2020.
a8Aw0 TIL Though commonly thought to be owned by no-one, 7 countries have made territorial claims to Antarctica, including Australia, UK, New Zealand, and France. The US does not acknowledge it.