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TIL a coal fire may have helped sink the Titanic

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pZ8Z TIL that in the novel, Forest Gump was 6'6, 242 lbs. Author Winston Groom says he envisioned John Goodman as Forest
N7M4e TIL Apollo 12 landed within 600 feet of the Surveyor 3 spacecraft that had arrived 2 years earlier. Parts of the spacecraft were retrieved and taken back home for examination.
6EenY TIL about Bill Baxley, elected Atty. Gen. of Alabama at 29 yrs old in 1970. He reopened the 16th St. Church Bombing case and received a threatening letter from Edward R. Fields, Grand Dragon of the KKK. Baxley’s reply was short & sweet: “My response to your letter of Feb. 19, 1976 is - kiss my ass.”
Wk11d TIL that the first female chief of the Cherokee tribe is named Wilma Mankiller
gna4 TIL seeing a single extra upvote very early in a comment’s life could change a user’s mind about how they feel about a comment, regardless of what the comment actually said.