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TIL that after losing the Bounty to mutiny, Captain Bligh had several more crews mutiny, and was deposed as Governor of New South Wales by his own troops
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TIL that diesel trains are moved forward using electrical motors, the diesel engine is only used as a source to create electricity through a generator
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TIL: (Toxic to Soil and Plants) Styrofoam is Used in Potted Plants Instead of Perlite
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TIL Spike Milligan, member of comedy team The Goons, joked after fellow member Harry Secombe sang at Peter Sellers' funeral, "I hope you die before me because I don't want you singing at my funeral." 22 years later, at Milligan's memorial, Secombe's son played a recording of his late father singing.
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TIL in the 50s a white man disguised himself as a black man and travelled to some of the most racially segregated parts of America. He found blatant acts of racism almost everywhere he went, and published a book about his experiences called Black Like Me.