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TIL that the 3rd US President had his own highly edited version of the Bible (the Jefferson Bible)

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69PZW TIL that four years after the RMS Titanic sunk, its sister ship, the RMS Britannic, also sunk after striking a German mine. Then, in 1918, the RMS Carpathia - known as the the ship that rescued the Titanic’s survivors, also sunk after being torpedoed by a German submarine.
m1mPM TIL an artist created 90 pieces of artwork which are just cans of his feces. The most recent sale for one of the cans was about $291,000 usd. I learned this on QI.
6emX TIL there is a garden in a bottle that has only been watered once and is still going strong 40 years later!A.K.A “self sustaining ecosystem”
Z8v1R TIL that the shamisen, a Japanese stringed instrument, was traditionally made of dog or cat skin
WkaAY TIL oranges aren't naturally occuring, and the first ones weren't even orange