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TIL that old cruise ships like the Titanic had black hulls to hide coal dust

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1aw0P TIL German police dogs get a monthly pension after their retirement
a86eN TIL there is an artificial island in Maldives called Thilafushi, which was created as a landfill to help with the waste from the capital city Malé. This dumpsite has been neglected and abandoned for the last three decades and it is now just starting to see positive changes.
R1Nw TIL: Nelly has sent two kids to college every year for the past 10 years.
Oo9Ae TIL that the moving line that divides the daylit side and the dark night side of a planetary body is called Terminator
nW4GP TIL that John W. Campbell Jr.'s mother had a twin sister, which disturbed him as a child as he couldn't tell them apart and inspired him to write "Who Goes There?", the novella "The Thing" was adapted from.