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6QJm TIL the greatest maritime loss of life in US history is not the Titanic, but a steamboat disaster in 1865. After Union POWs returning from the horrors of Andersonville crowded The Sultana on their way home, 3 of the 4 boilers exploded, sinking the ship on the Mississippi river and killing 1,700
WkLwN TIL that the chemical chlorine trifluoride, is so flammable it can set virtually anything on fire. In the 1950's, a 1 TON spill of this chemical burned through a foot of concrete, another 3 feet of sand and gravel beneath that, with a side of deadly clouds of corrosive hydrofluoric acid gas.
8XYV TIL that in order to protect his garden, a retired French doctor infected the rabbits with myxomatosis virus. The virus later resulted in a 98% decline in rabbit population in Europe. As a consequence predators like Iberian Lynx’s population also declined.
mVoM TIL President Lyndon B. Johnson referred to his penis as Jumbo and would regularly pull it out and show people asking if they had ever seen one so big
wEY1 TIL in 1922, Americans were consuming 1 million Eskimo Pies a day that resulted in the rise of the cost of cocoa beans by 50% and single handily lifted Ecuador’s economy out of a depression