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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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WpvX TIL Ridley Scott was set to direct I Am Legend with Arnold Schwarzenegger as the lead, a dialogue free opening hour and an ending in line with Matheson’s original.
PYGJn TIL the man responsible for beheading and cannibalizing another man on a bus in Canada was released in 2015 and currently living free.
ak7Z TIL that pioneer of astrogeology and founder of planetary science, Eugene Shoemaker, was a candidate for an Apollo moon mission but ruled out due to illness. After his death in 1997, he became the first person laid to rest on another celestial body, and the only human buried on the moon.
78kkx TIL There is no period in Dr Pepper after it was removed in the 1950s because the logo at the time made it resemble "Di: Pepper"
8e0X8 TIL the 1939 Nazi rally at Nuremberg was supposed to be "the Rally of Peace". It was cancelled last-minute because Germany invaded Poland, igniting the Second World War.