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TIL The story that the Titanic engineers remained inside the ship till the end to keep the electricity running didn’t actually happen

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Xxmk TIL in 1924, 14 bison were brought to an island off the coast of California for the filming of a movie, though the scenes with the bison did not make it into the final cut. Due to cost overruns, the film company decided to leave the bison on the island and now 150 of them live on the island.
OWXg TIL of David Johnson, volcanologist. Successfully fought a Chief Brody-like fight to keep the summit Mt St Helens & Spirit Lake visitor-free for 2 months before the cataclysm. Instead of 1000 deaths there was 53; him among them, radioing “…Vancouver, this is it” seconds before he was incinerated.
wLjw6 TIL that the term Plastic in Plastic Surgery predated "plastics" by 70 years, and comes from the Greek word meaning either sculpting or reshaping
9YAB7 TIL U.S. WWII internment camps didn't just hold American Japanese. U.S. citizens of Italian, Irish, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish and Finnish ancestry; most arrested and detained as “Germans.”
YpYjr TIL that some true statements in mathematics are true but cannot be proven. Ironically, if you prove that something cannot be proven, this proves that it must be true.