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TIL that the Titanic was a part of 3 large ships called Olympic Class by a company called White Star, looking forward to compete with what at the moment we’re the largest vessels in the world. 2 out of the 3 sunk in less than 1 year (with the Titanic as everyone knows, sinking in the first travel)

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D1GDv TIL about the Bal des Ardents, or the Ball of the Burning Men, a masquerade ball in France in 1393. During the ball, four dancers burned alive when a spectator accidentally brought a torch and set their costumes on fire.
W7XON TIL of the pen-tailed treeshrew , a tiny arboreal animal that subsists largely on the nectar of the bertam palm, one of the most potent naturally occurring alcohols on earth at 3.8% abv. Despite their diet consisting almost entirely of alcohol, they do not appear to get drunk.
QNKoe Today I learned that on April 3, 1919, Yankees centerfielder Ping Bodie defeated an ostrich in a pasta-eating contest
JY9Bj TIL: Yesterday (July 4, 2020 at 0634 CDT) was Earth’s Aphelion day, meaning we were the farthest we’ll from the Sun this year. The next Perihelion (the closest we are) will be January 2, 2021 at 0750 CDT.
n1yP TIL Ecuador’s large monument to the Equator is not really on the equator. They marked the wrong spot 200 years ago and didn’t realize it until GPS was invented.