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TIL that 15 Titanic survivors who witnessed the ship breaking in half were discredited by US and UK politicians who led disaster probes- agreeing with the highest ranking surviving officer on the Titanic who said that it sank in one piece.

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kYVd TIL that singing birthday cards have more processing power than the combined computers of the Allied Forces in World War II.
9YbbG TIL stars don’t actually twinkle. Light rays penetrate through different layers of air, distorting the brightness. That’s atmospheric Refraction.
l7Lp5 Today I learned that construction of the Washington Monument was delayed for 13 years because the pro-slavery states decided to go rogue. #slaveryremembered.
KxQG TIL that our ancestors lived along with 3 other branches of humanoid races. One of them still unknown.
8eAQ8 TIL Mars had a prime meridian (+0 hour timezone) 50 years before Earth