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TIL that the Mobro 4000 was a garbage barge that departed New York with 3,000 tons of trash in 1987. It gained national headlines as it traveled the coast looking for a place to unload after being rejected by six states and three countries. It finally unloaded five months later… in Brooklyn.

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BZLr TIL that newgrounds.com is one of the oldest websites still around. It was founded in 1991.
Wk58d TIL of Ghulam Dastagir, a Stationmaster who refused to leave his post during the Bhopal Gas Tragedy, & prevented any trains from stopping at the station, saving thousands of lives even as his colleagues were dead and he himself spent 2 decades in and out of hospital due to long exposure to the Gas
69WXW TIL Australia’s ‘worst female serial killer’ was exonerated; her 4 kids died from a very rare genetic mutation.
KAE6 TIL that tonight is the Eve of St. Agnes, where young maidens will have prophetic dreams of their future husbands.
MeXXK TIL Michael Jordan’s house has been on the market for four years without a buyer