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TIL the Titanic II which is set to sail in 2016 will replicate the former ship so much that third class passengers will actually be ‘deloused’ on arrival.

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E1wyW TIL Michael and Joy Brown gave their friend a paid year off in 1956 to write a book. Their friend was Harper Lee and she wrote “To Kill a Mockingbird”
woGA7 TIL that in Iceland alone there are 111 'Blood farms' - that forcibly extract huge quantities of blood from pregnant mares - horses. The blood is used to create a hormone (PMSG) that is given to factory farm pigs to increase the size of their litters.
kOoDd TIL while working at a railway, Richard Sears' station received a shipment of gold watches but the jeweler refused the shipment. Sears got the watches at a reduced rate (a common scam) and sold them to his coworkers who needed to keep accurate time. The success lead to his first mail-order catalog.
ZpAA4 TIL The Woodworth Personal Data Sheet is cited as the first personality test. Developed during the First World War the test was first published in 1919. The test consists of 116 yes/no questions with some modern personality test questions still tracing back to the first ever test.
4R7b TIL: Wealthy Chinese couples use American women to give birth to… fully Chinese babies