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TIL the name "Scooby-Doo" comes from the nonsensical lyrics at the end of the Frank Sinatra song "Strangers in the Night"

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lom1K TIL the Titanic's watertight compartments likely caused its rapid sinking by keeping too much water weight in the bow of the boat. Without the compartments, the ship would have remained horizontal and taken several hours to sink allowing nearby ships to rescue all passengers in time.
p8rO4 TIL: US Marines attempted to make Ice Cream in the Pacific by flying tubs of canned milk and cocoa up to 30,000 ft+ while under fire.
WkQ4 TIL “pie à la mode” was named by a professor who went around to restaurants ordering it by that name
l70dA TIL that Timur, the Turko-Mongol conqueror who founded the Timurid Empire in Persia and Central Asia, reportedly caused the deaths of 17 million people, amounting to about 5% of the world population
r07x TIL in 1986 to bypass Japanese censorship laws on depictions of sexual intercourse Toshio Maeda created “tentacle sex” leading to the large number of works today with tentacles inplace of male genitals.