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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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6EJm8 TIL Norman Lloyd is the world's oldest living actor. He started his acting career at age 9 in 1923. He is still acting at 106 today. He also produces, with his latest film having been released in 2015. If he lives 3 more years, he will have been acting for a full century.
mPjy TIL that Elon Musk forewarned today’s failed rocket launch, stating “…Orbital Sciences… uses Russian rocket engines that were made in the ’60s…they start with engines that were literally made in the ’60s and, like, packed away in Siberia somewhere.”
wbv7 TIL Some cultures speak in geographic, not egocentric terms, giving them superhuman orientation. Instead of asking you to “shift left” a little bit, they would request you “slide a little to the east” (or whatever the applicable direction was)
16rbP TIL: when awarding the 1987 Nobel prize in chemistry to a dr. Donald Cram, the committee accidentally phoned up Donald Cram, a Californian carpet cleaner with the same name.
R70r1 TIL of "the Truman Show Delusion" a term used in psychology to describe patients who believe they are part of a staged reality. Psychiatrist reported on one patient who had traveled to New York after 9/11 to ensure the event really happened and wasn't just a plot twist in his show.