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TIL The US Navy still operates wooden ships.

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loEQ1 TIL that “goodbye” derives from the 1570s saying “God be with ye.”
rN1Be TIL in 1985, David Lewis Rice tortured Charles Goldmark to get a list of "Communist operatives" and then murdered the entire Goldmark family, acting on rumors he heard accusing Goldmark's father John to have been a Jewish Communist agent
R7Wr4 TIL that THE FIRST CRIME PERPETRATED IN SPACE was by astronaut Anne McClain, accused of illegally accessing her wife’s bank account during her stay on the International Space Station.
N7xYP TIL that depression (low energy, social withdrawal, etc.) is believed to be an evolutionary response that was advantageous to many humans to reduce the likelihood of them catching contagious diseases
ADgdw TIL that the source of the mythical Jackalope may have been a virus that causes rabbits produce horn-like growths.