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TIL that there is a cruise ship travelling the seas that is a actually residential community owned by its residents

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4X9bw TIL that in 1977 a small town in West Virginia named Vulcan asked the USSR to help them rebuild a bridge after being denied funding by the local government. The WVA government gave them the money less then an hour after the story broke and a soviet journalist was sent to investigate.
4LD6 TIL Franklin W. Dixon, author of The Hardy Boys, DOESN’T EXIST. It’s just a nom de plume given to various ghostwriters.
j6blv TIL That Universal Studios deliberately dropped the Jr. from Lon Chaney Jr's name, so that audiences would confuse him with his, at the time, much more famous father who was a silent films star. Lon Chaney Jr went on to be a much better known star in his own right as 'The King of the Monsters'.
nWWMr TIL that nearly one-fifth of the population of Brampton, Ontario has Punjabi as its mother tongue
YpgWG TIL in 2012 a schizophrenic inmate named Darren Rainey died after he was put in a 180 °F (82 °C) shower for two hours. His skin reportedly "fell off at the touch". Two officers who were on duty at the time later received promotions and nobody has ever been charged.