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TIL only one Navy ship in active duty have sank an enemy ship: USS Constitution. (also the oldest active Navy ship)

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R7JBQ TIL that the giant prickly thistle "Miss Willmott's Ghost" gets its name because eccentric horticulturist Ellen Willmott would secretly plant its seeds in friends' gardens. She also employed a hundred male gardeners, and carried a revolver in her handbag.
PYkae TIL that John Wilkes Booth’s grave is marked by a small plain headstone in his family’s plot. Every day people show their “respect” play placing pennies on it facing downwards.
d865K TIL that even a gentle human voice is enough to make apex predators such as mountain lions flee in terror
BxVe TIL when Galileo presented his version of the telescope to the City of Venice in 1609, he did so at least partially because he needed the money to help support several illegitimate children.
51jQ TIL When prohibition was repealed in 1933, Yuengling beer Company sent a truckload of “Winner Beer” to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in appreciation, which arrived the day the amendment was repealed — particularly notable since Yuengling beer takes almost three weeks to brew and age.