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ZL14 TIL that the Titanic captain Edward Smith had crashed another ship just seven months before the Titanic sunk
PVRE TIL: Timothy Ray Brown revived a stem cell transplant to treat his acute myeloid leukemia in 2008. Not only did he eliminate his cancer, but he became the first person to ever be cured from HIV.
8QWK TIL Steven Spielberg was so impressed by a McDonald Ad about pee wee football that aired during the 1992 Super Bowl, he contacted the advertising executives to turn it into a full length movie. “Little Giants” was the result.
E1JM0 TIL that the Vatican is accused by Serbs, Jews and Roma of laundering millions of dollars of stolen gold and jewelry, plundered from concentration camp prisoners in Croatia, immediately after WW2. It is also alleged that they helped several notorious Nazi leaders hide and escape
m1Z6M TIL 91% of all the dives to the bottom of the Mariana Trench occurred in the past 4 years. Before that, the only visitors were the original explorers in 1960, and James Cameron in 2012.