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TIL The acuity of Aqaba in Jordan intentionally sank 21 tanks, anti-aircraft, and other military memorabilia to create an underwater museum for divers

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grn57 TIL that the state of Michigan rejected more than 21,000 custom license plates over the past decade for being “offensive” - and you can read them all because providing everything in the system was the only way to fulfill a FOIA request for 1 year of rejections since the system “can’t sort by date”
vPGM4 TIL The International database on longevity keeps data on deaths at age 105+, and currently contains records on 18,959 individuals from 13 participating countries. They have held supercentenarian research seminars on people living over age 110 since 2000
epgQD TIL the Catholic Church does not believe in "doggie heaven".
X0ZBj TIL February 30th happened once in 1712 in Sweden.
1ykO TIL that from a century after the Norman invasion of England in 1066, social status there is more inheritable than height: “English people whose ancestors were elite in the 1100s are still likely part of the upper crust today”