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TIL Pill bugs are actually crustaceans, not insects

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OGNG6 TIL that the last words of the captain of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald were "We are holding our own."
pY6VZ TIL about the Spanish composer Enrique Granados who basically lived out the real life version of the end of Titanic when a ship he was on was torpedoed by a German submarine and his wife couldn't fit on the life raft.
6ExXY TIL Will Smith is the only actor to have 8 consecutive films gross over $100 million in the domestic box office, followed by Tom Cruise and Tom Hanks with 7 each.
jXaN TIL that the billions of galaxies we can see may only represent about 3% of total number out there
1apAD TIL that municipalities in Liechtenstein have the constitutional right to secede by majority vote, so in the smallest municipality of Planken (population 432), it would take only ~150 people to agree to form an entirely new country