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TIL Samoa skipped December 31, 2011

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Jnbv TIL Mark Twain was a confederate solider.
16W7O TIL: “Miss Unsinkable” Violet Jessop survived the sinking of Titanic then survived the sinking of its sister ship Brittanic. The third sister and class namesake Olympic did not sink but Jessop was on board for its collision with a warship.
Y796W TIL The second incarnation of CBS Corporation was actually the legal successor of the original Viacom
6EYYm TIL Northern Hemisphere rainwater still contains 3x as much radioactive tritium than Southern Hemisphere rainwater due to atmospheric nuclear bomb tests from the 1960s
DLDv TIL Stop signs originated in Michigan in 1915. The first ones had black lettering on a white background and were 24 by 24 inches, somewhat smaller than the current sign.