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TIL The Village People Put out a New Romantic Album in 1980-

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nWJGo TIL the HMS Detroit 20-gun sloop was captured in 1813, too damaged to help the war it was sunk for preservation. 20 years later it was refloated and converted for commercial service. 8 years later a purchaser tried to send it over Niagara Falls where it instead broke up on a shoal.
168xW TIL criminal conversation is an old civil wrong for suing a person who had sexual intercourse with your spouse. Although abolished across the British Isles and 30+ U.S. states, it is still active in a few like North Carolina.
N7gw8 TIL Bob Weinstein wanted Peter Jackson to cut out the Battle of Helm's deep, merge Gondor and Rohan into one kingdom, and make Éowyn Boromir's sister during the production of The Lord of the Rings movies.
m15lP TIL that a Boeing 747 airplane gets 0.2 miles per gallon (0.09 km/l)
0wVEp TIL despite having spines, echidnas are more closely related to platypuses than hedgehogs or porcupines. They also lay eggs.