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8a4Wa TIL about the Yellow Fleet, cargo ships which were stuck in the Great Bitter Lake for 8 years.
BGvb TIL that James Cromwell, the actor who played Farmer Hoggett in “Babe”, became an ethical vegan and vocal opponent of the unethical treatment of pigs because of the movie.
78oOP TIL: The (now disbanded) British Colour Council produced indexes of named colours for use by government, industry, academia, and horticulture... including colour B.C.C 20 – "N_gger Brown".
Z8vaG TIL The Boeing 737 Jet Engine generates about 20 Terabytes of information per hour
RaN6 TIL the news of Chris Beniots wife’s death was reported on Wikipedia hours before her body was discovered.