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TIL The Creator of Sea-Monkeys was a Nazi
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TIL Ford's Theater, the site of Lincoln's assassination, suffered a collapse in 1893 that killed 22 people and injured another 68
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TIL that "Julian and Sandy", gay characters in a 1960s radio show, were the first to introduce the gay slang language Polari to a wider audience.
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TIL of Ushuaia, Argentina, the southernmost city in the world. Despite it's latitude and being adjacent to a glacier, winters are actually very mild with typical temperatures no lower that of some populated parts of the Scottish Highlands.
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TIL a group of ferrets is called a 'business'.
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TIL about the book "Futility" (1898) revised as "The Wreck of the Titan" (1912) featuring an American ocean liner named Titan that sinks in the North Atlantic Ocean after striking an iceberg. 14 years later the same thing would happen to RMS Titanic.