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TIL of ‘The World’ a cruise ship where residents can permanently live as it travels around the globe.

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0NYR TIL that in 2007 Sao Paulo outlawed billboards and every other form of outdoor advertising like on buses and cabs as well as the distribution of fliers.
69yml TIL that the first two hockey goalies to wear a mask did so in 1899. They used baseball catcher's masks almost 60 years before Jacques Plante became the first to regularly use a mask in the NHL in 1959.
X0eRD TIL The idiom 'with flying colors' originated with the practice of victorious ships flying flags, or 'colors' from their masthead to announce their victory as they sailed back into port.
NJob TIL: Angel dust (PCP) is still a Schedule 2 drug, while marijuana is still Schedule 1, lawfully making pot worse than angel dust and as bad as heroin in the eyes of the law.
rNAX0 TIL about the US WWII unit known as the “Ghost Army,” a tactical deception unit made of ~1000 soldiers. They used visual, sonic, and radio deception to fool German forces into thinking they had 30,000 soldiers with them.