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TIL about Hell Ships, ships that were used to ferry prisoners of war in brutal, oftentimes deadly conditions by Imperial Japan during WWII

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LBL0 TIL that 2-digit interstates ending with a 0 go east-west and with 5 go north to south. If it is 3-digits (495) it is an offspring of the original road (95). If the first of the 3-digit is odd, it goes through a city, if it is even it goes around a city.
16o07 TIL the Titanic’s sister ship, HMT Olympic, rammed and sunk a U-Boat in World War I. Olympic survived unscathed.
xV1o0 TIL that the young cast of “It” were warned beforehand that Bill Skarsgård, who plays Pennywise, could be uncharacteristically scary in character. The kids brushed this off, but when Skarsgård came out for their first scene together, he scared them so badly that most ended up crying or screaming.
W9ro TIL that 12 states allow child support payments via credit card, yielding yet another pathway to rack up frequent flyer miles
vPQK TIL there is a 31 year old, unsolved, brutal quadruple murder. Men, women and children were murdered and kidnapped. But 3 young boys were found, uninjured, in the bedroom the next morning. Authorities don’t know who did it, or why.