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TIL The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier can operate for 20 years without refueling

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Eyxo TIL scientists in Antarctica have set up a rugby pitch to play on when they want to relax. They have set up teams of American and New Zealand researchers to compete each year for the Ross Island Cup, which New Zealand have won 26 years in a row.
Z8W8R TIL that King Frederik VII of Denmark was the last monarch to rule in Denmark as an absolute monarch and that when he died childless in 1863, a succession crisis ensued.
5njP TIL in the 1960’s the USA planned to test deadly nerve gas (VX and Sarin) on 200 Australian soldiers by bombing a chosen site in a Queensland forest. The plan was eventually vetoed by Aus PM.
69LLm TIL: The 3x platinum hit "Man in the Mirror" is one of two songs not written by Michael Jackson from Jackson's seventh solo album "Bad".
57lk TIL during China’s War of the Three Kingdoms, general Chuko Liang, armed with 100 soldiers, defended a town against Sima Yi’s army of 150,000 by ordering his men to hide, throwing open the gates to the town, and sat by the wall strumming a lute. Convinced it was a trap, Yi fled.