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TIL a sailing ship called Eclipse was overtaken by a hurricane, and then it was hit by a meteor.

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wo8rJ TIL about America's Marine Highway, a United States Department of Transportation initiative aiming to use the United States' 29,000 miles of navigable waterways to alleviate traffic and wear to the nation's highways caused by tractor trailer traffic.
BVee TIL Otto von Bismarck once stated that when war came to Europe “it will be some damn fool thing in the Balkans that sets it off” thirty years before Franz Ferdinand was assassinated which kicked off the start of World War One.
6wvl TIL that the largest sea evacuation happened on 9/11. Almost 500, 000 people got evacuated by boat in less than 9 hours.
6aLJ TIL wife bought a scratch-off lottery ticket to prove a point to her husband that it was a waste of money, but it ended up winning her $1 million.
gD07 TIL: In 2008 two judges were found to be accepting money from two juvenile detention centres in return for increasing the number of residents, offences were as minimal as mocking a principal on Myspace, trespassing in a vacant building, or shoplifting DVDs from Wal-mart .