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TIL that Barents Sea was blocked by ice in 16th century

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ZpjwG TIL in 1702, a British admiral attempted to attack a French naval squadron, but some of his captains refused to help, leading to the French escaping. The French admiral later wrote to the British admiral recommending that he execute the cowardly captains. He took his advice, shooting two of them.
vLvr TIL that Britons think that business executives with an American accent sound like a more successful person, just like most Americans think that a British accent is the mark of a sophisticated and successful person.
bPbQ TIL there is still a lava-like molten mixture of nuclear reactor core that remains from Chernobyl - 300 seconds looking at it and you would be dead in two days
rB6w TIL a lobsters brain is located in its throat, its nervous system in its abdomen, its teeth in its stomach and its kidneys in its head. It also hears using its legs, tastes with its feet, and tends to favor one front limb, meaning they can be right-clawed or left-clawed.
16n9O TIL that bodies do not decompose in Lake Superior, due to the freezing temperatures, relative lifelessness, and lack of oxygen in its depths. The bodies of many sailors from its hundreds of shipwrecks still sit eerily preserved on the lake bottom.