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TIL there is an abandoned World War II ghost ship that sits on the Ohio River a mere 25 miles away from Cincinnati and no one is quite sure how it got there.

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OoYZX TIL a total of 2,500 Londoners have been arrested over the past five years for allegedly sending “offensive” messages via social media.
o11r TIL Will Smith improvised all the lines in his monologue about his father on Fresh Prince. The emotional ending and the hug was not scripted and he thought the cameras had stopped rolling when he said “How come he don’t want me, man?” His dad had left him as a child.
DelP TIL that at the North Pole it is whatever time you say it is.
R71k9 TIL that Ava Gardner, while married to Frank Sinatra, became pregnant twice, but aborted both pregnancies due to "MGM [having] all sorts of penalty clauses about their stars having babies."
dXR7 TIL a $50 million titanium mesh protects an uninhabited rock in the South Pacific from erosion.