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TIL that in 1930 San Francisco had the world's busiest ferry terminal. 30 years later none were running.

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8aBAZ TIL that when NASA's New Horizons spacecraft passed by Pluto, the trip took about 1 minute less than predicted or in a decade-long journey, NASA's forecast was 99.99998% accurate or the equivalent of forecasting a trip from New York to Boston & being accurate to within four-millionths of a second.
4XmNX TIL in 1781, 142 slaves were thrown overboard from a slave ship. The crew claimed they were low on drinking water and had killed the slaves to save it-this claim was disputed. The slaves had been insured. The case brought major attention to abolition.
XEdxR TIL that JRR Tolkein fought in the Battle of the Somme
LQENm TIL The New Schubert Edition, the major publication of Schubert’s available works, is scheduled to be finished with over 100 volumes in 2027, 71 years after it started - and thus have taken more than twice as long to complete as Schubert himself lived (31 years).
16kgd TIL that humans have been giving animals personal names since at least 2300 BC