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TIL that one woman pays $164K per year to live on a luxury cruise ship

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R78La TIL Jim Henson lost the Hoggle puppet from "Labyrinth" after traveling back from the overseas movie set. The Unclaimed Baggage Center in Scottsboro, Alabama discovered it inside a lost shipping container and now it is on display at their museum of found treasures.
RNKw TIL the Swiss Guard, known now as the guys in the silly costumes that stand around the Vatican holding halberds, once stood against an army as it sacked Rome. 189 Guard stood against 20,000 invaders at the Vatican long enough for Pope Clement VII to escape the city.
L7Ap TIL of the “2suit”, which is a suit designed for sex in space or other weightless environments.
PYZ6O TIL that dimetrodon was never a dinosaur, but was actually more closely related to mammals. Also that pop culture depictions of dimetrodon are super inaccurate.
j8GM TIL The USS Arizona, which was sunk at Pearl Harbor by the Japanese 73 years ago today, still leaks 2-9 quarts of oil each day.