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TIL the Ottoman Empire was still in existence the last time the Cubs won the world series.

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LQk8d TIL about the HMS Victoria, a 340’ battleship that collided with another ship in 1893 and sank. But when it sank it slammed into the seafloor with so much force that 3/4 of the ship is sticking out of the seafloor at a 90 degree angle
XEADk TIL that the oldest Boeing 747 still in active operation today first flew 1 week prior to man first stepping foot on the moon.
mxPyM TIL # is called an octothorp
X90j TIL Arnold Schwarzenegger has a brother Meinhard who was favored by his father (a former Nazi party member) and died in a drunk driving crash at 24. Arnold did not attend his brother or dad’s funerals.
5V80r TIL that DARPA honored Val Kilmer by popping popcorn with a super powerful laser