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TIL Mark Wahlberg had a cocaine addiction at the age of 13 and was convicted of attempted murder at the age of 16.

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ewnE TIL that during the Cold War, the US Army deployed Atomic Bazookas.
mxgBp TIL that the world's longest domestic flight (and the world's longest flight by distance) is a 15728 km flight between Paris and the city of Papeete in the Pacific territory of French Polynesia, which takes between 16-17 hours
wo5bY TIL The first man to report a rogue wave was Jules Dumont d'Urville in 1826, d'Urville was then publicly ridiculed because such a wave was believed impossible. A rogue wave was not measured until 1995 and the lack of earlier reporting is likely due to few wooden ships surving the encounter.
V458 TIL there are only eight species of bear in the world.
69gaw TIL construction of the Manchester Ship Canal began in 1887 and took six years and cost £15 million at the time.