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TIL the Titanic's sister ship Olympic came to its aid, but was turned away because the other rescuers didn't want to put the survivors on a ship nearly identical to the one they had just escaped

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kJ8m TIL New York Times author Timothy O'Brien wrote that Donald Trump “only” had 250 million dollars, so Trump sued him for five billion.
kJlKg TIL Johnny Depp cut off the tip of his own finger.
a8pmb TIL that Gordon Lightfoot released his famous ballad "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" less than 10 months after the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior
N7Jdb Til that there is an anime adaptation of 'The Count of Monte Cristo'
N7NXN TIL Marine Cpl. John H. Pruitt was posthumously awarded both the Army and Navy Medal of Honor for capturing two machine guns and 40 Germans on October 3, 1918. He was killed the next day—his 22nd birthday—by an artillery shell.