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TIL that in 1943, the hull of the tanker ship SS Schenectady cracked in half while docked in Portland, Oregon. The sound of the fracture was reported to have been heard over a mile away, and the cause of the failure wasn’t fully understood for another 50 years.

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ZkDR TIL Thomas Blood attempted the theft of the Crown Jewels of England but was pardoned by the King and given an estate in Ireland.
ZrNv TIL the guy who brought us “It was a dark and stormy night” also brought us “the pen is mightier than the sword”
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