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TIL that when floating ice melts, the water level actually stays the same. Apparently the difference in density between water and ice is exactly 1:1 to the percentage of the ice that floats above the water(aka is not displacing water)

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E1OLW TIL a legal loophole in the UK allows alcohol to be sold without a license on a train in motion. An unlicensed distillery exploited this by setting up in a disused railway building, obtaining a steam train, and selling gin to customers while they road it back and forth from the distillery.
4XV5g TIL an island was christened a war ship by the British Navy during a French blockade. The HMS Diamond Rock was fortified with cannons and spent 17 months hammering any passing French ships, and to this day anyone in the British Navy is required to salute the rock when they pass it.
e0ePk TIL that a mass grave was found in Ireland containing the bones of 796 infants.
4kmQb TIL Lahaina, Maui's massive, famous banyan tree actually survived the wildfires that ravaged the Western side of the Hawaiian island last year
0dpY5 TIL that before the world's first nuclear explosion, the chance that the earth would be vaporized by the explosion was estimated at "slightly less than 3 in 1,000,000".