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TIL The captain of a nearby ship ignored the Titanic's distress calls and could have saved countless passengers had it intervened.

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9wY6M TIL of the 1925 dystopian novel 'Berlin Without Jews'. In the book, a far-right nationalist political party takes power and expels all Jews from Germany, while society at large does nothing to stop them. When Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, the author committed suicide.
KObLa TIL The band ‘Tool’ have a “secret album” called “The Holy Gift.” If you listen to their album “Lateralus” in a different order of tracks, the songs flow into each other even better, and and they make different musical themes from the original.
Br1we TIL Sharks have rush hour too: a study found that shark traffic on major routes around Palmyra Atoll peaked between 7 p.m. and 8 p.m
d8mRZ TIL that a single gallon of anthrax, if distributed properly, is all it would take to kill everyone on Earth.
6ELmw TIL most car commercials feature a motion capture vehicle, the Blackbird, instead of the car seen in ads.