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TIL the HMS Victory, most famously commanded by Horatio Nelson at the Battle of Trafalgar, has been preserved as a museum ship and is also the world's oldest naval ship still in commission, though the USS Constitution is the oldest commissioned ship still afloat

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XKrr TIL that Isaac Newton’s “Principia Mathematica” almost wasn’t published by the Royal Society of London because they had spent their whole budget on a book about fish, called “The History of Fishes”. The cost was instead covered by astronomer Edmund Halley
9wvMM TIL Brazil is, by far, the country that takes the most showers. On average, a Brazilian showers every 12 hours.
1a8LX TIL Professional snooker player "Big Bill" Werbeniuk once drank 76 cans of lager during a competitive game. He then carried on drinking for another 7 hours. Werbeniuk also offset the cost of lager against income tax, consuming 50 pints a day. He died of heart failure aged 53
9wNO6 TIL the world record for longest breath held underwater is 24 minutes 37 seconds by Budimir Šobat from Croatia. The average person can achieve about 2 minutes - afterwards less and less oxygenated blood reaches our brain which at around 6 minutes forces a blackout to trigger automatic breathing.
78l7P TIL : Cold temperatures weaken nasal immunity, making us more vulnerable to viruses. A mere 5°C drop in nasal tissue temperature reduces immune response by nearly half.