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TIL that White Star crewmembers on the Titanic were considered fired as of the moment it sank

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VMo08 TIL Dick Cavett did not realize he was in the movie Apollo 13 until he was at the theater watching it and saw himself.
5VaR9 TIL that the chair of the Somali Athletics Committee was suspended from her position for "nepotism and defaming the name of the nation", after she selected her untrained niece to compete in the 100-meter race at the 2021 World University Games, where she finished 10 seconds behind the leader
JVGv TIL that Bear Grylls was the first person to summit Mt. Everest after breaking a vertebrae. He also was the youngest Brit to summit at 23 in 1997, and flew over the summit with a powered paraglider in 2003.
rNn0e TIL the Prince song 1999 was inspired by a documentary on Nostradamus and is about an imagined party during the end of the world.
vPQgj TIL In Iowa you can be arrested for simulated public intoxication