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TIL that The Ships of Christopher Columbus Were Sleek, Fast—and Cramped with the smallest the nina only being 50 feet long.

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Me9KB TIL That the Rolls Royce Silver Shadow would have been called the Silver Mist, except that somebody pointed out that in German, "mist" is slang for excrement.
gNNW TIL that the current CEO of Yahoo, Marissa Mayer, was also the first female employee at Google, in 1999.
GAgl4 TIL That mosquitoes actually serve a real purpose (other than being a nuisance) as pollinators.
7vlL TIL a man survived Nazi Doctor Josef Mengele removing his kidney without anesthesia and survived a gas chamber as he was the 201st person in line for a chamber of 200 people.
R79oj TIL Goldbach's Conjecture asks if every even integer is the sum of two prime numbers. It's deemed a "million buck problem" because its solution would advance mathematics by a great margin, although it remains unsolved since 1742