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TIL a coal fire may have helped sink the Titanic

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lbV7 TIL that the first Olympic disqualification for drug use was against a Swedish pentathlete who drank two beers before his shooting event to calm his nerves.
dVdQ TIL that actually 26% of lesbians are obese, compared to 17 per cent of straight women.
6EJKY TIL With the Norman conquest of Britain in 1066 the French took over England. The lower-class were the hunters so animal names persist, and the upper-class French only saw the butchered meats. As a result, we refer to beef (boeuf), pork (porc) and mutton (mouton) instead of cow/pig/sheep.
a8A0J TIL about a mass-produced 28-cylinder radial piston engine that was created during WWII and were made by hand before computer aided design or advanced 5-axis milling machines. It sported 71.5L outputting roughly 4,300 hp (3,200 kW)
RBw8 TIL that when the Confederate Army was low on gunpowder, bat caves were raided for poop. Bat guano’s high nitrate content provided a key ingredient for the production of gunpowder.