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TIL that cruise ships have morgues.

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WeE4 TIL that Oprah Winfrey grew up in poverty, was raped at age 9 and 13, ran away from home, and gave birth at 14 to a son who died soon after.
6EEY8 TIL that Wensleydale cheese sales were so low in the 1990s, that production might have ceased, until Wallace & Gromit saved the cheese. Creator Nick Park only choose the cheese because of it’s name, and accidentally saved the company.
b66la TIL Alexander Fleming's mold that produced the first antibiotic, penicillin, was kept frozen since 1945 and its genomes are used for regrowing nowadays
e05XL TIL Robert Maxwell, father of Ghislaine Maxwell, was the inspiration for the Bond Villain in Tomorrow Never Dies. At the end of the film M orders a cover-up story paralleling Maxwell's real death, “Falling overboard on his yacht."
mNZY TIL that before the dawn on artificial light we used to sleep twice each night