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TIL that the world's oldest known message in a bottle was discovered on an Australian beach, having been thrown into the ocean over 132 years ago by a German ship's crew as part of a scientific experiment.

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0d4Qv TIL that the village of Westward Ho! is the only place in the British Isles with an exclamation mark in its name
5YZBR TIL that the first black woman to travel to space was Mae Jemison, who was a mission specialist on the Space Shuttle Endeavor in 1992. She later appeared on "Star Trek: The Next Generation", making her the first person to have been on Star Trek and in space IRL.
OowBL TIL British policemen used to wear their uniforms at all times - even when not on duty
oBZkA TIL in 2013, a man had a stroke that made him lose the ability to feel sad.
wLRR8 TIL Nic Cage once crashed a Nic Cage film festival, watched 4 of his own films, did a 47-minute Q&A and read a 10-minute short story