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TIL there are antibacterial phone cases

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8aQEK TIL that the second officer of the Titanic stayed onboard till the end and was trapped underwater until a boiler explosion set him free. Later, he volunteered in WW2 and helped evacuate over 120 men from Dunkirk
yVl7p TIL about the flesh-rotting “zombie” drug xylazine, a powerful tranquilliser normally used by veterinarians on large animals which recently made its way onto the global illicit drug market.
Q0Ga TIL Robert Ballard’s mission to find the Titanic, was actually a secret Cold War mission to find and investigate wrecked nuclear submarines Thresher and Scorpion. They finished earlier, so they spent the extra time looking for the Titanic and found it.
L4or TIL the Texas capitol once held a poll to rename their waste disposal department. The winning entry was ‘The Fred Durst Society of the Humanities and Arts.’
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