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TIL a Titanic II is being built by an Australian billionaire. It will be an exact replica of the first and even serve the same meals.

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rlld TIL: Gold medals on 2014 olympics will have bits of russian meteorite
1jPd TIL in 2016 thousands of people signed an online petition demanding that retired pornographic industry actress Mia Khalifa be named the ambassador to Saudi Arabia under the new American government
D1rBp TIL that the name of the inventor of the lithium-ion battery (which is fine, but not perfect) is John B Goodenough
ADodg TIL IKEA allowed a giant hide-and-seek game in a store for the 30th birthday of a woman who planned the meet-up on FB; over 1K people signed up to play. More hide-and-seek parties popped up on FB including 19K signing up in Amsterdam. IKEA no longer allows hide-and-seek in their stores.
k8OW TIL Six weeks before JFK was murdered in Dallas, his Secret Service driver Tom Shipman died of a sudden heart attack in Camp David. This made room for William Greer. Greer didn’t accelerate the limousine after the first shot, instead he slowed the car down.