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TIL 171 people have vanished off Cruise liners in the last decade.

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4klRJ TIL the English name for Saturday is from the Roman deity Saturn rather than any germanic deity (like most of the other days) since Saturn had no direct correspondent deity (in the eyes of Roman scholars) in the Germanic pantheon.
xVjRb TIL North Korea is the only 'necrocracy' in the world – which means that it is the only country that is still under the rule of a dead leader.
AZm4 TIL Toshiba doesn’t want you to be able to fix your own computer/laptop and will slap you with a C & D if you share their service manuals.
ykeX TIL that there were two twins named Jennifer and June who only spoke to eachother in a secret language, isolated themselves from the outside world, tried to kill eachother and wound up in a mental hospital and decided together that one of them must die for the other to live a normal life.
ElWX TIL that you have holes in your bottom eyelids. The punctum drains excess tears into your nose, which is why your nose runs when you cry.