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TIL the US Navy maintains a research vessel that is designed to be capsized vertically. As a result, most rooms on it have two doors: one to use when the ship is horizontal, another when vertical.

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lol67 TIL 1 of 3 job exemptions in US child labor laws are for “the making of evergreen wreaths”
woOW8 TIL about the Gombe Chimpanzee War, also known as the Four-Year War, which was a violent conflict between two communities of chimpanzees in Gombe Stream National Park in the Kigoma region of Tanzania between 1974 and 1978.
GYRj TIL that in 2010 the International Council on Security and Development conducted a survey that found that 92% of Afghan men have never heard of 9/11.
VBnwB TIL that proposals for a link between the islands of Great Britain and Ireland were proposed satirically as early as 1799, and seriously from 1886 onwards, but no viable plan for either a bridge or tunnel has ever been put forwards
6EpNW TIL Emma Watson is a certified yoga instructor.