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TIL that the USS Constitution, built in 1797 is the world’s oldest ship still afloat and is still in active service in the US Navy

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rRLJ1 TIL about Margaret Schilling a mental patient who went missing in December 1978. Jan '79 local news reporting her escaped. 5 weeks later, worker finds her body locked alone in a construction area. Her decomp left a stain in the marble of her death pose that endures to today.
WkGRN TIL that in the 1930s American travel writer Richard Halliburton discovered a remote mountain community in the Caucases that had descended from a lost band of German knights from the crusades.
eDn TIL a tiger is most likely to win a fight against a lion.
DaBj TIL that Dr. Naum Ciomu lost his temper while performing surgery and sliced off his patients penis with a scalpel. He then chopped up the amputated penis before storming out of the operating room.
mgZy TIL: Cash machines predominantly use Windows XP as their operating software.