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TIL when Captain Francesco Schettino was asked why he abandoned the sinking Costa Concordia cruise ship in 2012 while the ship’s passengers were either dying or trying to escape, his excuse was that he accidentally fell into a lifeboat. He received 16 years in prison for his role in the incident.

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Jxr1 TIL of ‘Mangia’, an Atari 2600 video game in which a mother force feeds her son with pasta until he explodes. The boy can feed animals with the food, but if the mother sees him do so, she brings out three times as much pasta as punishment. 'Mangia’ is among the rarest video games for collectors.
mP6Y TIL there is a huge abandoned fortress 70 nautical miles off the coast of Key West in Florida. Fort Jefferson remains the largest all-masonry fort in the United States and was briefly used as a prison for Union deserters in the Civil War.
vJmj TIL lower income drivers pay more for car insurance even if they have perfect driving records.
9wE6 TIL that in California and 3 other US states, “Ladie’s Night” are against the law because they are considered “gender discrimination
Z8jJo TIL that until the mid-twentieth century, golf clubs were not numbered, but had wonderfully funny names: brassies, niblicks, baffies, mashies, jiggers, spoons, and cleeks.