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TIL that the oldest continuously serving navy in the world belongs to Portugal.

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LwMv TIL a UK man became paralyzed after a cycling accident and spent 4 years raising £22,000 to pay for pioneering treatment that might help him walk again. However, upon hearing about a disabled boy needing surgery (that stood a better chance of success), he donated all the money to him instead.
JDm8 TIL that tsunamis can travel unnoticed in deep water as fast as 500 miles an hour, and cross an entire ocean in less than a day.
LQgGV TIL about Giulia Tofana, who helped over 600 women murder their husbands over a 50yr period during the 17th century Italian Renaissance. Her poisonous creation, called Aqua Tofana, was thought to have been laced with arsenic, lead, and belladonna and was sold mixed into cosmetics.
v1QwB TIL that the Eiffel Tower grows in summer. When it gets hot, the iron expands due to the heat and shrinks again in the winter. It grows by 6 inches each summer.
b9QpN TIL the first football game was played in NJ between Rutgers and Princeton on Nov 6, 1869