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TIL: There was a fire in one of Titanic's coal rooms prior to the departure from Europe to NY. The fire was not a contributing factor to the ship's sinking.

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kORw4 TIL that a baby elephant struck by a motorbike while crossing a road in Thailand survived after an off-duty rescue worker performed CPR on it. The man had worked in rescue for 26 years and performed dozens of CPR attempts on humans, but the elephant was the first victim he had ever managed to revive
8al6X TIL National Lampoon magazine had a front cover featuring a dog with a gun to its head, saying “if you don’t buy this magazine, we’ll kill this dog”. Three years later, somebody tracked the dog down and killed it. The dog was named Cheeseface.
R7gB1 TIL the Chinese takeout box was an American invention originally designed to hold oysters and is rarely used for food in Asian countries
kOvk5 TIL that despite the name, no centipede has exactly one hundred legs because they always have an odd number of leg pairs
6L9Q TIL 50% of marriages no longer end in divorce. It’s more like 35% if you married in the ‘90s, and 15% if you married in the 2000s.