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TIL that a woman named Violet Jessop survived three famous shipwrecks: the Titanic, the Britannic, and the Olympic.

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69WJ TIL a man beat his wife to death with a Bible after an end of the world prediction failed to come true in 2004. And thousands of people believe that the world will end today, Sunday October 21st, 2012.
W0RB TIL that former Australian rules footballer Garry Hocking legally changed his name to “Whiskas” so that commentators would have to say the name of the product every time during a game, being the first of its kind in marketing.
epX6 TIL that Stalin taught his children to be tolerant to religious people: “Their prayers don’t disrupt your studies, so why are you disrupting their prayers?”
dD9R8 TIL there is an extremely rare condition, 'demon face syndrome,' in which people to see faces as distorted, horrific, drooped, or stretched. “It’s like staring at demons. Imagine waking up one morning and suddenly everybody in the world looks like a creature in a horror movie.”
0dEvA TIL that P.T. Barnum noticed people were lingering too long at his exhibits so he posted signs indicating "This Way to the Egress". Not knowing that "Egress" was another word for "Exit", people followed the signs to what they assumed was a fascinating exhibit and ended up outside.