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TIL a 240 acre island off the coast of Scotland supplies half the world's curling stones. (Which are actual stones)

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loQe5 TIL the battlecruiser HMS Hood sunk in only 3 minutes resulting in the deaths of 1418 men, and only 3 survivors.
nenZW TIL that Notch, aka Markus Persson, had his PayPal account frozen for a suspicious withdrawal or deposit when he made $750,000 from early Minecrafat sales.
166Pd TIL about Cyclones Katrina and Victor-Cindy, a cyclone (hurricane for the Americans) in the Southern Hemisphere that maintained its circulation for over fifty days, crossed over three basins (South Pacific -> Australian Region -> Southwest Indian Ocean), and used three names.
wLdXE TIL being typecast as a cowboy, Sam Elliot hoped for a different role when he received The Big Lebowski script. The role turned out to be a cowboy and the Cohen brothers actually wrote in the script that this cowboy 'sounding not unlike Sam Elliott' and 'looking not unlike Sam Elliot'.
7l7x TIL although the stabbing death of indie rock icon Elliott Smith is widely believed to be a suicide his autopsy report lists his mode of death as “undetermined.” Hesitation wounds were absent, possible defensive wounds were found on his hands, and his name was misspelled on his suicide note.