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TIL that the Titanic captain Edward Smith had crashed another ship just seven months before the Titanic sunk

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WkP6d TIL St. Nicholas (aka Santa Claus) is the patron saint of prostitutes
5eyp TIL that in the movie ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’, most of the bruises seen on Rooney Mara’s body when she takes a shower are real; the physicality of shooting the rape scene the day before resulted in countless bruises on the actresses wrists, neck and torso
baV4 TIL that before he joined Queen, John Deacon (the bassist) was a trained electronics engineer. He used these skills to build an amplifier from electronic equipment he found in a dumpster. It became known as the “Deacy Amp” and, along with Brian May’s guitar, was a key component of Queen’s sound.
0w6A TIL a dingle is a deep, narrow cleft between hills. Hence the term: dingle berry.
woey6 TIL that William Turner, the captain of the RMS Lusitania when it was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-Boat in 1915, was also the captain of the SS Ivernia when it was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-Boat in 1917.