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TIL that when the Britannic, which was the sister ship of the Titanic, struck a German mine and began to sink, two lifeboats full of passengers left the ship without permission and were pulled into the vessel’s rotating propellers.

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OE84 TIL that Click (2006) is the only Adam Sandler film to date that has been nominated for an Oscar. The category was ‘Best Achievement in Makeup’
DAbv TIL IMDB is over 22 years old, and it started on USENET
d57Q TIL Plato believes that people acquire knowledge of geometry before we were born, as we do not acquire the basic truths of math and science through observation so therefore our souls must have lived in a perfect universe before birth
ADdJw TIL in 1964 the Rolling Stones wrote and performed a jingle for a Rice Krispies commercial.
rNw6e TIL about fribromelanosis, a rare genetic mutation of hyperpigmentation that all silkie chickens have. This mutation causes their skin, muscle, and bones to be black.