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TIL there is a ship capable of sinking under other ships, rising up, and lifting them out of the water so “dry dock” maintenance can be done at sea. Capable of carrying 110,000 tons.

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9YEw7 TIL of 'Heaven's Gate' (religious group), who had participated in a mass suicide of 39 of its members (a coordinated series of ritual suicides) in order to reach what they believed was an extraterrestrial spacecraft following Comet Hale–Bopp in 1997.

X9Gj TIL The only known surviving puppets from the iconic Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer film were rediscovered in 2005 on Antiques Roadshow. They were stored and forgotten in an attic in disrepair after being given to kids as toys.

ne8G7 TIL if you flush with the lid up, germs will still be in the air 90 minutes later

mxQjx TIL that due to a series of clergical clerical errors, there has never been a Pope John XX, even though there have been 21 legitimate popes who took the name John (the 21st of which was Pope John XXIII)

EZd7 TIL Robert E. Lee not only considered slavery a moral & political evil, but his wife and daughter set up an illegal school for slaves at their Arlington plantation.