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TIL There was a book written about an ‘unsinkable’, ~800 foot cruiseliner ship, that hit an iceberg in the North Atlantic on an April night, didn’t have enough lifeboats, and killed most of it’s passengers. Ship was called 'The Titan’. The book was written in 1898… 14 years before the Titanic sank

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XE7mD TIL Police in cities across America, Canada and the UK use a device known as a StingRay to track cellphone users, block service and intercept cellphone communication without warrants. The use of these devices is so controversial that most police agencies won't confirm or deny they use them.
6EKx7 TIL about the “Great Shoe Spill of 1990,” where over 40,000 Nike shoes fell overboard out of a shipping container. Due to the shoes’ unique serial numbers, the spill has aided oceanographers in their studies of ocean currents. The shoes are still being discovered daily in distant locations!
VB1X4 TIL every May in Hamburg tugboats perform choreographed tugboat ballet to the tunes of waltz
Dwwr TIL that in 2011, two men para-glided from the summit of Mt. Everest, arriving at a village in 42min and avoiding the dangerous conventional 3 day descent.
X0VQr TIL the zipper scene from the 1998 film There’s Something About Mary was inspired by a real incident. According to Bobby Farrelly, when he was younger, his sister’s friend used the bathroom and “...zipped himself up. He was in there a long time. My dad had to go in and say, 'Hey, kid. You alright?'"