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TIL The USS Niagara was intentionally sunk in 1820 for preservation, and raised 93 years later for restoration.

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BoEy TIL there’s an Elvis album called Having Fun With Elvis On Stage that contains no music, only comments made onstage between shows. It was released by his manager, Colonel Tom Parker, to get around RCA’s ownership of his material.
WkLWA TIL that the core of the Earth is about 2.5 years younger than the crust. This is due to gravitational time dilation, a consequence of General Relativity
KJW4 TIL the word “natural” on food bags is not regulated by the FDA, and can be a complete lie
Ryn9 TIL that during prohibition, grape farmers would make semi-solid grape concentrates called wine bricks, which were then sold with the warning “After dissolving the brick in a gallon of water, do not place the liquid in a jug away in the cupboard for twenty days, because then it would turn into wine”
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