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TIL that during the Korean War a ship designed to carry 12 passengers saved more than 14,000 refugees in a single mission.

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VMalk TIL In 2020, conservationists captured the first images of Cross River gorillas with multiple babies in Nigeria, proving that the subspecies once feared to be extinct is reproducing. Cross River gorillas are notoriously difficult to capture on camera and no images had captured multiple infants
BggvD TIL that the most requested funeral song in England is by Monty Python.
v18jx TIL of Congressman Lucas Miller who proposed an amendment renaming the United States of America to the United States of the Earth in 1893. He also proposed abolishing the Army and Navy.
7rkQL TIL Tommy Lee Jones has been portraying an alien in Japanese coffee ads (Boss Coffee) for decades.
XEynr TIL: After the Vatican, the city with the largest collection of Christian relics is Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania