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TIL there’s a bar in Ireland that was opened in 900AD

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9wQDm TIL the Japanese turned the third of their superbattleships (after Yamato and Musashi) into the largest aircraft carrier ever built at the time. After four years of construction and enormous cost, she left the shipyard and was immediately sunk by a submarine.
DJBj TIL there’s a random island off of the east coast of Canada called Random Island.
nn8P TIl Politicians in the US gov spend $50,000 (each) of taxpayer’s money on self portrait oil paintings.
lrd5 TIL that Mark Davis, owner of the Oakland Raiders NFL team, is worth $500 million but drives a 1997 minivan and carries a 2003 dumbphone. Until recently he ate at Hooters every Tuesday night for $12.99 all-you-can-eat wings. Davis travels to southern California to get his unusual bowl haircut.
REGj TIL Water is used in rice fields to prevent weeds. Rice doesn’t actually need that much water, but since it can thrive in such conditions, whereas weeds cannot, it’s a natural protection against them.