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TIL you can take a cruise on a cargo ship.

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VMbRQ TIL Wilt Chamberlain's record setting 100-point game on March 2, 1962 was not televised (and no video exists of it as a result); only two different audio recordings from a radio telecast made by two different people (which were combined by historians) survives today of that game
9YyD7 TIL that Daft Punk produced Interstella 5555 which is a 2003 adult animated musical science fiction film and the visual realization of Discovery
OoYEL TIL Orcas, and other marine mammals, are given a plethora of drugs to deal with their captivity. These drugs include antacids (to treat ulcers from stress), antibiotics (for injuries and infections), antipsychotics, benzodiazepines (valium, again for stress), and contraceptives.
XEJBk TIL that no Great White Shark has ever lived longer than 198 days in captivity. Before 2004, 16 days was the record.
VMQEB TIL that the Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1972-1981, Kurt Waldheim, had been a Nazi officer during WWII. In 1986 it was discovered Jews had routinely been shot near his office during the war. This revelation got him a travel ban from the US.