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TIL the only active ship in the US Navy that has sunk an enemy ship is the USS Constitution built in 1797

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xx4B TIL bowling originated as a religious ceremony. A stone was rolled at the Kegel, which represented the Heide (heathen), and those successfully toppling it were believed to have cleansed themselves of sin.
Lv5V TIL When asked, after 50 years of research, what he knew about the reason people sleep, William Dement, founder of Stanford University’s Sleep Research Center, answered, “As far as I know, the only reason we need to sleep that is really, really solid is because we get sleepy.”
69dYW TIL that Art Spiegelman, best known for the Pulitzer-winning graphic novel Maus, also created the Garbage Pail Kids line of trading cards
nWXWB TIL Queen Victoria was fifth in line to the British throne when she was born.
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