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TIL the largest most powerful ship in the Russian navy in WW2 was an old British battleship renamed as Arkhangelsk (formerly HMS Royal Sovereign)

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0wJDv TIL a woman was buried alive. Her husband heard her screaming from inside the coffin and tried to break her free. When they finally got her out, she was dead again but her fingers were bruised and the glass inside the coffin smashed.
dMRE TIL turtles fart. A lot.
GAMLN TIL that the last words of Terry Kath (guitarist and vocalist of Chicago) were:"What do you think I'm gonna do? Blow My Brains out?" Before he put a gun that still had a round in the chamber to his temple and pulled the trigger. 8 days before his 32nd birthday.
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VM8dB TIL the melody for the “alphabet song” was written by Mozart