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TIL that by law the US required to have at least 11 active aircraft carriers in the fleet

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LwJQ TIL that in 1958 a man survived a mega-tsunami that had a run up height of 525m (1722 ft) because his fishing boat went right over it. He said he was looking down over the surrounding trees. This is the biggest tsunami on historic record by a looong way.
aMl9 TIL Both sharks and vaginas have a natural lubricant called squalene
OowjL TIL that an underachieving Princeton student wrote a term paper describing how to make a nuclear bomb. He got an A but his paper was taken away by the FBI.
P5aV TIL Tabebuia Trees wood is more dense than water, and naturally shares the same fire resistance rating as industrial steel.
loA5G TIL It's believed that the plane crash that killed John Denver on Oct 12 1997 was due in part to him running out of fuel during flight, being unable to see his fuel gauge, and a design flaw in accessing his reserve fuel tank switch.