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TIL there is a cruise ship named “The World” where residents permanently live as it travels around the globe.

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N791M TIL the longest surgery ever recorded was performed in 2001 by a team of 20 doctors; it took 103 hours (more than four days) to complete.
W7LrN TIL that the geologist Michel Siffre spent 2 months underground without time cues to study how his body clock adapted, repeated the experiment for even longer on himself and more subjects, and discovered that their bodies tended to switch to a 48-hour clock. In one case, one even slept 34 hours.
4kVjb TIL after Hiroshima, the US pledged to destroy all nuclear weapons if one organization was permitted to control all nuclear material and mining operations on Earth under the Baruch Plan
GAABN TIL a lot of communities in Alaska have no poilce
5GKQ TIL that teenager invented a push-button socket wrench and offered the patent to Sears. Sears told him the patent was valueless and gave him $10,000, then went on to make $44 million selling the ratchets.