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TIL that 14 years prior to Titanic tragedy, there was novel featuring the ‘biggest ship ever built’, an ocean liner called Titan, the “unsinkable”, which sinks after hitting an iceberg

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AOB7 TIL that, according to a UK report commissioned by the House of Commons, tobacco is more harmful than cannabis, LSD, and ecstasy
4lVR TIL: As we age, we perceive time faster because “adulthood is accompanied by fewer and fewer memorable events” (firsts), our biological clocks slows down along with a few other affecting factors
8PL4 TIL boxer crabs have small pincers that are useless for defense, so they carry sea anemones around as weapons.
pjJQ TIL in 2014, bots outnumbered humans on the internet for the first time in history, making up 60 percent of all web traffic
65Gm TIL that two of the moons in our solar system (Ganymede & Titan) are actually larger than the planet Mercury.