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TIL in 1945 the worst maritime disaster ever happened when the MV Wilhelm Gustloff was sunk by Soviet torpedos. The ship was attempting to cross the Baltic sea to evacuate fleeing Germans. While the total death count is not known, it is estimated at nearly 9,000

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wLQQY TIL the world's rarest autograph belongs to William Shakespeare's, which can be found on six known autographs on only 4 documents - all currently in museums
Y7xev TIL of Säkkijärven polkka. A Finnish folk-song played repeatedly over radio during the Soviet-Finnish War to block radio-controlled mines
XEeZr TIL that if a tuna is not killed quickly during capture, the tuna can struggle so hard that it's muscles can become cooked.
PYM1J TIL humans live closer to the time of the T-Rex than the T.rex lived to the time of Stegosaurus
KO8nQ TIL of Henry Darger who created over 300 gorgeous, often giant and mostly very distubing pieces of artwork which were only discovered shortly before his death. His last words were "too late now" when someone mentioned his work which is now considered one of the most important "outisder art".