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TIL Blackbeard was only an active pirate for two years

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4V8X TIL that James Cameron received the go ahead for the film “Aliens” because of his pitch to the producers for the movie, in which he simply walked into the room, wrote “ALIEN” on a blackboard, wrote an “S” after the word, and then drew 2 vertical lines through the S to make it a dollar sign
GAgaG TIL 250 miles north of San Francisco is California’s “Lost Coast”. There is almost 100 miles of mountainous, remote and nearly inaccessible coastline owned by the Federal Government.
R7K68 TIL Olympic gold medals composed at least 92.5% of silver
KYOd6 TIL if all the trenches built along the western front in WW1 were laid end-to-end they would total over 25,000 miles long; enough to encircle the earth at the equator (24,901 miles)
nemR9 TIL the Gulf Stream has such an effect on temperatures in Western Europe, that it puts them in a completely different climate to other places at the same latitude around the world. Parts of Canada that have polar bears are on the same latitude as Scotland.