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TIL Seattle had a “real” super villain, Rex Velvet, who was “captured” by a Make A Wish recipient who wished to be a secret agent

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P9pO TIL that JFK, when stranded on the Solomon Islands, wrote a rescue message on a coconut, and was rescued. He got the coconut back, and it was on his desk in the Oval Office.
JPpl TIL that the German word for foolhardy is “tollkühn” and that is where Tolkien derived his surname from.
wLaLM TIL of Rhoda Abbott, the only woman to survive the foundering of the Titanic. A 39 yr-old divorcee traveling 3rd class with her teenage sons, she was able to climb aboard the swamped lifeboat Collapsible A as Titanic plunged. Her sons were lost.
m1YGy TIL of the SS Warrimoo, a ship that claims to have crossed the intersection of the International Date Line and the Equator precisely at the turn of the year from 1899 to 1900.
QJvKd TIL Baby Corn is Just Regular Corn That is Harvested Before it Has A Chance to Mature