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8ybb TIL Emmy was the ship’s cat on the RMS Empress of Ireland. She never missed a voyage. However, on 28 May 1914, Emmy tried to escape the ship. The crew could not coax her aboard and the Empress left without her, which was regarded as a terrible omen. Early the next morning the Empress sank.
5V7R9 TIL that in 2012 at the Emir of Kuwait International Grand Shooting Grand Prix, the winner was from Kazakhstan, and they played the parody national anthem from Borat by mistake, which mentions the potassium exports and the second-cleanest prostitutes in the area.
rR0Md TIL about "pearling"; the act of inserting small beads or smoothed pieces of domino under the skin of one's penis, commonly done in prison.
eQME TIL that in 1859, an American farmer in the San Juan Islands shot a pig who was eating his potatoes, but the pig happened to belong to a British colonist. In the ensuing confrontation, 461 Americans and 14 artillery faced 5 British warships with 70 cannons and 2140 men. The only casualty was the pig
No41 TIL the amount of heroin required for an overdose is only 5 times higher than the amount needed to get high