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TIL the Costa Concordia, a cruise ship that sank in Italy in 2012, had the theme song for Titanic (1997) playing in one of its restaurants when it made first impact

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YpgNW TIL Sigmund Freud's development of psychoanalysis, including concepts such as the id, ego, superego, and libido, was all done under the influence of a constant supply of cocaine, which he advocated unreservedly, and even endorsed for cash.
16lZd TIL the common degu can use tools and will spontaneously stack objects in order of decreasing size, and is the first animal to be recorded displaying these these behaviors other than apes and birds
Wk64o TIL of Ben Salomon, an army dentist who earned the Medal of Honor in World War 2. When his field hospital was about to be overrunned, he manned a machine gun and killed 98 Japanese soldiers. He died, but not before his wounded colleagues were evacuated.
Bgyoy TIL a single Parrot fish creates up to 1000 lbs of sand per year as its poop.
R7pga TIL John Hughes filmed "The Breakfast Club" and "Ferris Bueller's Day Off" concurrently to save time and money. He even used the same closed high school for the interior scenes, but built a second library in the gym for "Breakfast Club" as the original was too small.