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TIL a 665-foot cargo ship called the Golden Ray capsized off the coast of Georgia in September 2019 carrying around 4,000 Hyundais and Kias as the result of a fire. The entire crew escaped safely but the ship remains partially submerged on its side in St. Simons Sound, Georgia.

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p8xkp TIL the most common group of people who switch majors in American universities are people in STEM field majors who decided to quit and do a non-STEM major instead
ar0N TIL that JFK’s sister was given one of the first lobotomies because of her mood swings. Doctors asked her to sing God Bless America while they cut into her brain, and stopped when she “became incoherent”
yVLRe TIL Major Henry Rathbone, the man sitting next to Lincoln when he was assassinated in 1865, died in an insane asylum in Germany in 1911 after murdering his wife in front of his kids.
VMvgQ TIL that scientists actually answered the "chicken or the egg" question
wNNM TIL that according to Robert Downey, Jr., they wanted Bill Murray to consider a role in Iron Man, but “nobody could find him.”