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TIL a boat in the UK named the Lydia Eva is the last surviving steam drifter boat in the world

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yQ8xp TIL there’s a 2 mile underground pipeline in Bruges to transfer beer from brewery to bottling plant.
GYQWE TIL that the tallest person in recorded history was Robert Wadlow, who was 8 ft 11.1 in (2.72 m) tall and apparently still growing at the time of his death at 22 years of age.
OQdg TIL a Norwegian rockslide (~8000 years ago) is believed to have created a tsunami so powerful, it turned Britain from a European peninsula into an island.
LQ67d TIL “clinically proven” just means consumers who tried the product reported it does what it claims to do.
8kJb TIL scientists have found that the older a father is when his child is born, the uglier the child tends to be. However, a child with an older father is more likely to live longer than a child of with a young father.