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TIL There is a replica of Noah's Ark and it was damaged by heavy rain

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mxMBM TIL the term factoid originally meant a piece of information that was accepted as a fact but wasn't true, or a made up fact that is accepted as true due to it appearing in print.
ADXLo TIL In 1983, UK, a man confessed to murder of his wife 2 decades ago after a human skull was found behind his house, only for carbon dating to discover that the skull was actually 1700 years old, while his wife's body were never found. He tried to revoke his confession and failed.
Y7Rdv TIL that Ne Win, dictator of Burma during the Socialist Burma period, was deeply superstitious. In 1987 he banned most banknotes not divisible by nine (his lucky number), wiping out people’s saving overnight and further crippling Burma’s economy.
eppGE TIL hippos are actually not great swimmers. Instead, they mostly move with a sort of slow-motion gallop along the riverbed and they must be denser than water
X0ExP TIL The Béarn, France's only aircraft carrier during WW2, never launched her aircraft in combat. Instead Béarn transported supplies and spent most of the war in Martinique. On the ship's only voyage to Europe Béarn collided with the USAT J. W. McAndrew killing dozens.