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TIL: The USS Cyclops, which went missing in 1918 during WWI remains the single largest loss of life in U.S. Naval history not directly involving combat, and the fate of the ship is unknown still to this day.

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GdWG TIL According to H.H. Holmes, “Americas first serial killer”, he had a fear of doctors, and his classmates forced him to go in a doctor’s office and stare at a human skeleton. This made him interested in death, and started his obsession with killing animals, and then humans.
r0ve TIL the famous “Piracy. It’s a crime” advert used the music in it illegally as it did not have the rights to the song
7rWrb TIL when chess player Bobby Fischer beat soviet grandmaster Taimanov, Taimanov was thrown off the USSR team, forbidden to travel, banned from writing articles, and deprived of his monthly stipend. It virtually ended his career.
epwE5 TIL Debra McKenna forgot a class ring gifted by her then fiancé in a department store in Maine in 1973. A worker found it 47 years later with a metal detector, buried in a forest in Finland.
E1jkW TIL Kentaro Miura, author of manga series Berserk, was so meticulous that he would often go pixel-by-pixel in digital drawing software meant to streamline his inking and drawing process