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TIL that the chief baker on the Titanic, Charles Joughin, drank an entire bottle of whiskey as the ship sank and spent 3 hours in the -2°c waters before he was rescued alive

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5VMVB TIL Travis, the chimpanzee that was famous for ripping a woman’s face off, also was struck by a bottle thrown by a pedestrian, at a stop light, before unbuckling his seatbelt, jumping out the window, and chasing the man on foot then disappearing for several hours.
OWEX TIL the Kentucky Coal Mining Museum is powered by solar energy
p6aZ TIL Every Apple iPhone advertisement displays the time as 9:41 AM, the time Steve Jobs unveiled it in 2007.
5Yne8 TIL: Treatments invented at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate to more than 80%.
NNMe TIL Foxes behave like catdogs, because they are canines that share the same ecological niche as cats (catching small prey favours specific behavioral traits, convergent evolution)