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TIL There is one coal powered commercial ship still operating in the US. It's a 71 year old ship used as a car and passenger ferry across Lake Michigan in summer.

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MeGo7 TIL that the stickers on fruit, and even the glue holding the stickers to the fruit, are edible/FDA friendly
KO104 TIL about the Body Worlds exhibit in London, where they preserve bodies via plastination so you can see muscles, veins and more
nWVN7 TIL of Toni Gardiner from Suffolk in England who worked as a secretarial assistant on the set of Lawrence of Arabia, during which time she met the King of Jordan. They married and had four children, the first of which is now King Abdullah II of Jordan.
Vpw8 TIL that when Michael Jackson died, Google mistook millions of searches for a DDoS attack and blocked related searches for 30 minutes.
P17LL TIL that years before the upcoming Gladiator 2, Russell Crowe commissioned a script for a sequel in which Maximus goes to the afterlife and gets resurrected, appearing in World War 2 and the Vietnam War, and ending with him in a suit and tie at the modern-day Pentagon.