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TIL of the Herald of Free Enterprise, a ferry boat that capsized off the Belgian coast in 1987, killing 193 passengers total.

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BrJrL TIL MMA fighter Ronda Rousey is of English, Polish, Trinidadian & Venezuelan descent. Her Trinidadian great-grandfather was one of the first black doctors in Canada & her English-American mother holds a PhD & won the World Judo Championship in 1984.
yx4l TIL There is a bar in London called “The Mayor of Scaredy Cat Town” that you can access through a fridge after announcing “I am here to see the Mayor”
ypY8 TIL about the oldest surgeon of Russia, 87 years old, who still holds more than a hundred operations a year, with zero fatality.
9wV1D TIL the founder of an AI girlfriend app, Replika, was inspired by a dystopian Black Mirror episode where a woman resurrects her dead boyfriend with AI, which goes horribly wrong.
woVkJ TIL that Laura Branigan's "Spanish Eddie" song is about a real person, an NYC gangster and then a city Youth Services Agency agent, who successfully organized and almost succeeded in establishing a truce between most of the city street gangs to reduce violence, and got shot while realizing the plan.