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TIL in 1999 that Royal Caribbean was accused of dumping oil and was caught providing falsified documents about it to the US Coast Guard. They then argued they were outside US jurisdiction since they were incorporated in Liberia (their HQ was/is in Miami)

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j6Ara TIL of Roger Marie Bricoux, one of the musicians on the Titanic. All band members died on the ship; however, he wasn't declared dead until 2000, and the French army considered him a deserter in World War I.
9YWLM TIL that Frank Sheeran, the mob hitman whose life is depicted in Martin Scorsese's film "The Irishman," participated in the Dachau Massacre, during which scores of SS concentration camp guards were executed en masse by U.S. G.I.s after the camp was liberated in April 1945.
E1ZD7 TIL that the although the opening of the video of Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen shows all band members singing, it is actually a 5-part harmony that's all multi-track recordings of Freddy Mercury's voice.
5VdDP TIL the piña colada's creation/origin is hotly contested and claimed by the restaurant Barrachina (in 1963) and the Caribe Hilton Hotel (in 1954), both located in San Juan, Puerto Rico. However, a cocktail book by a London Hotel included the drink. This book was published in 1930.
ADL8l TIL that dumb people believe themselves to be above average in terms of intelligence due to the Dunning Krueger Effect, which explains that the less someone knows of a topic, the more confident they will feel in the subject due to them not knowing the true size or complexity of the topic.