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TIL in 2002, while returning to the US, the USS John C. Stennis aircraft carrier stopped in Australia, where the sailors wore out the local sex workers to the point the brothel had to close down temporarily.

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9YGr7 TIL in 1959, a geologist built a rock cairn 1.2 m away from a glacier and left a note, asking whoever found it to measure the distance to the glacier. When it was found in 2013, the distance had grown up to 101.5 m. For a scientist in the 1950s to predict a glacier retreating was highly unexpected.
yQKxl TIL that because of the musical "Hamilton", more people visited the grave of Alexander Hamilton in 2015 than in the previous 212 years since his death. Many of those visitors came having just seen the musical on Broadway, or en route to do so.
wQY8 TIL that humans spend 13% of their lives not focusing on anything in particular.
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jYnR TIL that soccer balls got their traditional, hexagonal, black-and-white Telstar design so that the ball could be more easily made out on black and white Television