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TIL The whale tail on cruise ships is designed to direct diesel exhaust over the stern and away from the passengers.

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4Xa15 TIL about Adam Rainer, the only person known to have both dwarfism and gigantism. At 19 years old he was 4 feet 8 inches tall, by the time he was in his 30's he was 7 feet tall.
R5B98 TIL That American actor John Wayne was asked to be the running mate for Democratic Alabama Governor George Wallace, who had been nominated for President by the American Independent Party for the 1968 election, however, he immediately declined.
GNe7 TIL C.S.Lewis, Aldous Huxley and J.F.Kennedy all died on the same day, the media coverage of thetwo former being overshadowed by the latter
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oP7r TIL Richard Matheson, the author of the novel “I Am Legend”, also wrote host Rod Sterling’s opening and closing statements in the t.v. show “The Twilight Zone”, as well as the famous episode “Nightmare at 20,000 Feet”