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TIL that the celebrated Tudor warship Mary Rose - rediscovered in 1982 and now restored as a museum - had a sister ship called Peter Pomegranate whose fate remains unknown

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VMrep TIL Abraham Lincoln was unpopular among both the north and the south before he died.
D1j1Y TIL the Star Trek theme tune is not just an instrumental but has lyrics (which were never intended to be recorded) in order to give the writer more money in royalties
0dRQy TIL about Sedna, a dwarf planet in our solar system that has an extremely eccentric orbit, which has an 11,390 year Orbital Period, and right now, it's about as close to us as it will be for a VERY long time.
KOyJ9 TIL in 1983, 50 corporations controlled 90% of the American media, including magazines, books, music, news feeds, newspapers, movies, radio and television. By 1992 that number had dropped by half. By 2000, six corporations had ownership of most media, and today five dominate the industry.
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