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TIL the International Space Station has gravity and everything is weightless only because they are in a constant free-fall around Earth

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0PLy TIL influential newspaper editor William Thomas Stead wrote a story in 1892 about a ship sinking in the Atlantic at great loss of life due to not enough lifeboats. Stead died in the Titanic sinking in 1912.
1aD6D TIL that Purple Dye in Ancient Times was made by extracting it from a type of Mediterranean sea snail, which made it hard to get lots of, making it by far the most valuable color dye at the time.
AD5vw TIL Uganda has the youngest population of any country in the world, with a median age of 15.
XEVAP TIL that Vera Lynn is still alive and well at the ripe old age of 102. She scored a number 1 album in 2014 making her the oldest person to top the charts and her last album was in 2017 and peaked at number 3. She's living proof that age really is just a number. March 20 is her b-day! 103!!
DQ0be TIL - After the USS White Sands was decommissioned in 1974, a company then bought it and had to move the ship with an 81' beam through the 80'-wide Ballard Locks. It was done by weighing down one side of the ship and then transiting the locks while tilted 38 degrees, at high tide.