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TIL I learned that the Californian tried to warn surrounding ships about ice but were told to ‘shut up’ by Titanic’s operator 40 mins before collision

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R7P04 TIL that Michelson-Morley experiments (to prove a theory competing with special relativity) are still being conducted, with the first one dating back to 1881
rmXe TIL There is a town in Nebraska with a population of 1. The Mayor grants herself a liquor license yearly.
5dXR TIL There’s a hotel in Bolivia made almost entirely of salt, complete with salt beds and chairs
rvo4 TIL in 2007, Quality Pork Processing, a Hormel supplier, had an outbreak of a rare neurological disorder to workers in and around the brain machine. None have fully recovered.
JXrl TIL of a pool in Minneapolis, MN that is a natural swimming pool. It is a self-contained swimming vessel that uses plants and natural microbes from a nearby regeneration pond to clarify and purify the water instead of chemicals for sterilization or disinfection.