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TIL the oldest object in England's Crown Jewels is a spoon.

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M7LBm TIL while laying underwater cable in the Chicago river a diver discovered a 40ft submarine. Inside he found the remains of a human and a dog. Their identity is still a mystery more than a century later.
MWm0 TIL in WWII the Japanese decrypted a British message to London complaining about the weak state of “Fortress Singapore”, a key British base. It was so frank in its admission of weakness that they suspected it was a plant, believing no officer would be so open in admitting weakness to his superiors.
kJ6Q4 TIL of the HMS Black Joke, a former slave ship captured and given to the British West Africa squadron. Over a 5 year career she captured dozens of slave ships and freed thousands of African slaves bound for the Western Hemisphere.
NXejM TIL that the Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport (MKE) is the only airport in the USA and perhaps the world to have a used bookstore: a branch of Renaissance Books.
rNb1 TIL Bill Nye’s TV career began on a local Seattle sketch comedy show named Almost Live. He was an engineer at Boeing at the time.