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TIL, the US Navy retired its nuclear cruisers because it was cheaper than to refuel them

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VMaJk TIL the CIA ran Project Fat Fucker in 1952, which resulted in the overthrow of the Egyptian government
ONX4 TIL that Mormon prophet Joseph Smith claimed to have transcribed The Book of Abraham from ancient Egyptian papyri, which experts later determined was actually common Egyptian funeral text.
jNkLM TIL that in the film Blue Lagoon, Brooke Shields had to walk in shallow trenches because she is almost 178 cm (5'10) while Christopher Atkins is just 167 cm (around 5'6). He later described the experience as "like having the Statue of Liberty standing beside me".
jNVgE TIL: The ashes of Clyde Tombaugh, the man who discovered the planet Pluto, were sent to outer space on the New Horizons spacecraft making his the first human remains to leave our solar system.
OoV74 TIL it's unknown where the tomb of Archimedes is located today. The last known record of his tomb was in 75 BC, 137 years after Archimedes had died, when Cicero had found the tomb in a neglected condition and overgrown with bushes, and had the tomb cleaned up.