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TIL The Stella Shouting Contest happens in New Orleans every year to commemorate Tennessee Williams and A Streetcar Named Desire

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DQ10D TIL in 1714 the British government offered £20K (~£2m today) to solve the longitude problem - which had cost thousands of lives due to a lack of ship positioning. John Harrison, a carpenter, took 40 years to make the perfect clock - his final version only lost 39.2 seconds over a voyage 47 days.
b9VAa TIL Nazis originally planned to forcibly relocate Europe's entire Jewish Population to Madagascar resettling a million Jews a year for four years, until British military complications caused them to shelve the plans.
epkR5 TIL that Titanic victim John Jacob Astor IV published a sci-fi novel in 1894 about life in the year 2000; it includes descriptions of a world wide telephone network, solar power, air travel and space travel to Saturn and Jupiter.
lnpK TIL Verizon’s Customer Agreement says (bluntly put) that their Sales Reps can lie to you and Verizon doesn’t have to honor what their Reps say.
XEK0r TIL that hippos ???? have pink sweat!!!