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TIL gross tonnage is not the weight of a ship, instead it is calculated from the ship's internal volume using a logarithmic function

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N7KnN TIL that listening to metal and it's subgenres has been found to help relieve stress and decrease hostility, according to a study by the University of Queensland in 2015
K9KJ TIL Australia has 31% of the worlds uranium and is the biggest source for uranium in the world
b6eyj TIL that Tina Turner had her US citizenship relinquished back in 2013 and lived in Switzerland for almost 30 years until her death.
rNLQe TIL Frank Sinatra's Ultimate Christmas album entered the Top 10 on Billboard for the first time in over a decade. He's had 33 Top 10 sets in his career.
wLVpo TIL that Switzerland has no president - instead it has a seven member Swiss Federal Council with shared power