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People naturally have a morbid curiosity about the Titanic disaster, wondering about every little detail of that fateful April night in 1912, and slowly but surely virtually every detail has been revealed since.

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dow8 TIL that the popularity of the SNES caught the attention of the Yakuza, prompting Nintendo to ship the consoles at night to prevent theft.
6DYQ TIL the Apollo 11 astronauts (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins) didn’t have life insurance, so they autographed hundreds of items for their families to sell in the event that they died
KOVoR TIL of the Dracula parrot found only in New Guinea. Despite its name, the parrot eats no meat but rather feeds almost exclusively on figs. Just as vultures adapted a featherless head to feed cleanly on bloody carcasses, a Dracula parrot's lack of face feathers keeps its face clean of sticky figs.
Y79Vr TIL that the world's oldest known wooden wheel is over 5,000 years old. Discovered in 2002 in Slovenia, this ancient artifact dates back to between 3,350 and 3,100 B.C., providing insight into early human innovation.
Rnx6 TIL that during wwII, the german forces built fake airfields with fake wooden planes in it. The allied forces waited until they finished them, then sent out air raids in which they dropped wooden bombs on them.