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TIL that only 3 of the 4 iconic smokestacks on the Titanic worked, the 4th was for aesthetic reasons and also to make the ship look more impressive.
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TIL in 1816, 147 shipwrecked Frenchman were stuck adrift on a makeshift raft when their captain cut the rope towing them. It took only 3 days for them to resort to cannibalism & only 15 survived to be rescued after 13 days. The aristocrat captain hadn't sailed in 20 yrs & it was 100% avoidable.
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TIL: Battleships are obsolete and all have been decommissioned worldwide.
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TIL - In 2019 Turkey set a world record by planting 11 million tree saplings; 3 months later, 90% were dead because they had been planted in the wrong season, and there hadn't been enough rain that year to support them.
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TIL that Saddam Hussein once pranked his guests by adding tabasco to koftas he cooked for them- some of the panicked guests initially fearing that the paranoid dictator had poisoned them.