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TIL a ship can be cut into two, and extended by welding in a new center section.

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yQoAl TIL that the mysterious baroque painter Johannes Gumpp is known to have painted only one self portrait which also happens to be a triple self portrait in which he appears from behind painting his own face reflected in a mirror.
5YRNR TIL the first street fight ever filmed was between 2 men as they was leaving work in Halifax,England - 1901
aP0 TIL during the battle scenes in Braveheart, the extras who were members of the F.C.A., the Irish version of the territorial army, members of different companies took the chance to beat each other up during the filming which explains the realistic fighting
VMLR0 TIL about the letter Thorn in English that made the Th sound, and how when you see a sign that says “Ye Old Tavern” the Y in Ye is actually shorthand for Thorn so all of those signs actually say “THE Old Tavern”
M7r17 TIL, Cocaine should never be injected as it a protoplasmic poison and causes tissue necrosis.