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TIL the Dewey Decimal system reserves 999 for history of "extraterrestrial worlds"

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GYbME TIL Sir Anthony Hopkins originally wanted to be a composer. He released an album that topped the UK classical charts in 2012. At the age of 26, he composed a waltz that was finally performed 47 years later by André Rieu's Johann Strauss Orchestra, who specializes in waltzes.
Lk8xr TIL that the largest cruise ship today, Symphony of the Seas, is the equivalent of almost 5 Titanics in size and mass.
7revp TIL that Iceland, which is a country that strongly supports firearms, hasn't had a murder since 2007
JAxm TIL: That in it’s entire deployment history (c 1998), the Challenger 2 tank has suffered no combat losses. And that one tank is reported to have survived 70 RPGs.
6vVY TIL that Mark Twain repaid his pre-bankruptcy creditors in full, though he had no legal obligation to do so. “I am not a business man; and honor is a harder master than the law. It cannot compromise for less than a hundred cents on the dollar, and its debts never outlaw.”