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TIL that the largest semi-submersible structure ever built is the Havfarm 1, a floating mobile salmon farm in Norway which can farm 10000 tons of salmon at any given time.

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WEaA TIL 30 million people witnessed the opening of an Al Capone safe only to find dirt and empty moonshine bottles
vPQDj TIL the Rohonc (or Rohonczi) Codex is a document in an unknown language and writing system that emerged in the 19th century, written on paper from the 1530s. Like the more-famous Voynich Manuscript, scholars are divided on the possible origin and meaning, and whether it is a hoax or authentic.
7Q7P TIL that studies have shown that homework has little to no impact on students’ academic success, and that it is more beneficial for students to simply take up hobbies and spend time with family instead.
o4go TIL in one Japanese Shingon Buddhist sect, the Tachikawa school, “the master drops the sacramental bodhicitta into the pupil’s mouth". Bodhicitta is the semen ejaculated during the master’s union with a female ritual partner.
xGr1 TIL that Leland Stanford had the privilege of driving the Golden Spike that completed the Transcontinental Railroad. Stanford had never used a sledgehammer, and he missed the spike.