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TIL that during a troop carrying mission in World War 2, the RMS Queen Mary was struck by a rogue wave and came within three degrees of capsizing. Paul Gallico, who was on board, would later write The Poseidon Adventure based on this incident.

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gX9L TIL that there is a Heavy Equipment Playground in Vegas that allows people to “play” with heavy machinery.
GYZmG TIL Michigan has a bottle deposit of 10 cents, instead of the usual 5 cents. Their recycle rate is 97%, compared to 70% of states with bottle deposits, compared to 33% for states without any deposit laws
BY9x TIL of the process of rubber duck debugging. A process whereby you explain your code line by line to a rubber duck in the hope of finding the fault.
wo50E TIL that Charles Dickens was a great lover of cats, so much so that when one of his beloved cats, Bob, passed away, Dickens was so upset that his sister-in-law fashioned one of Bob's paws into a letter opener. Dickens kept this at his side as he wrote and he used it every morning to open his mail.
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