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TIL There is a cruise line that will start its very first around the world cruise that will last for 180 days starting in 2015.

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ZpPeo TIL Rhoda Abbott, 39, was the only woman aboard Titanic to survive going into the freezing water- every other female survivor was lowered in a lifeboat- and the only woman aboard after 2:05 A.M. to survive. Abbott swam to Collapsible A and climbed aboard, but lost her 2 teenage sons in the chaos.
mx9Xy TIL your brain/eyes will generate a "light show" (known as the Prisoner's Cinema) if kept in darkness for long periods of time. The phenomenon is reported by prisoners confined to dark cells and by others kept in darkness as well as; truck drivers, pilots and practitioners of intense meditation.
eRbL TIL houses in Amsterdam have hooks built into the top front to help people move things in and out of upper story windows
mORM TIL that the French military actually has the best military record in the world having won 723 of the 1211 battles they fought in the last 800 years
Oo7De TIL about the History of Central Asia