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TIL the Titanic will be reduced to a rust stain in an estimated 15-20 years due to a metal eating bacteria.

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AoEw TIL In 1990 Noam Chomsky wrote “If the Nuremberg laws were applied, then every post-war American president would have been hanged.”
8L48 TIL shooting point blank mean shooting in a range where you don’t have to account for gravity
9wwG TIL during the Munich Massacre, the camera crews filmed the actions and broadcasted it live on TV, so the terrorists were able to watch the police prepare an attack.
e0gW5 TIL that Tippi Hedren, the star in Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds (1963) is now 90 years old and still lives with lions and tigers after she began rescuing them in the early 1970s, according to her granddaughter, actress Dakota Johnson
K1JE TIL China stole the color white from chemical company DuPont. The firm’s closely guarded titanium oxide process is used for making cosmetics, plastics, and the chalked lines on tennis courts.