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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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MeN6V TIL in 75 BC, pirates seized a vessel that Julius Caesar was in, and held him for ransom. Caesar was insulted at the ransom, which he saw as too low, and promised to crucify the pirates. At his insistence the pirates raised the demand. After he was freed, he captured the pirates and crucified them.
xj6b TIL That on the final Mercury Flight, astronaut Gordo Cooper’s capsule lost all power. He had to manually bypass the control system to fire the retro rockets and drogue chute and use his wrist watch for time and stars for reference points. It was the most accurate landing to that point in history.
l7pnK TIL that New Zealand was the first country in the world, by some years, to introduce a national standard time. “NZMT” (New Zealand Mean Time) was introduced in 1868.
b9mXj TIL A statistician spent years writing a science fiction novel to teach university statistics. Even though he didn't know anything about writing fiction, he got an illustrator to create graphic novel strips for his story which contained the equivalent of 60 research papers
7rxwL TIL about lorentz transformations are very easy to visualize.