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TIL that the head baker on the Titanic got drunk while the ship was sinking, was the last one on the ship as he “rode it down like an elevator” into the water, and was able to tread water for 2 hours hardly feeling the cold thanks to the alcohol he imbibed which allowed him to survive.

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JQDv TIL Edgar Allan Poe’s famous poem “The Raven” was rejected by one magazine and was eventually sold for $9. The poem became immediately successful and reprinted in prominent periodicals without any financial gain to Poe.
Yb7Z TIL: Going to the bathroom is one of the most dangerous things a sloth can do. Half of all sloth deaths occur while they are climbing to and from the forest floor, which is where they poop.
W7ppN TIL that there are only 28 different ways dates can be arranged in modern calendars. Depending on leap years, you can reuse old calendars every 6, 11 or 28 years until 2100, which will change the pattern.
8LlV TIL that in September 2006, Chinese Border Patrol guards opened fire on a group of Tibetan pilgrims moving slowly in deep snow, killing a 17-year-old girl. The incident is only known in the West because a Romanian mountain climber secretly recorded it
OomyX TIL James Blunt, who wrote, ''You're Beatiful'', studied aerospace manufacturing engineering and became an army captain, before starting his career at 30 years old.