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

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0EWR TIL in 1995 a man deposited a junk mail cheque for $95,093.35, and it cashed. The bank took too long to realise and the money was now legally his.
4XBP6 TIL about Celia Blay, a 65-year old woman who caught a murderer over the internet. A man had been posing as a female nurse online, trying to convince people to commit suicide. At least five people did. Blay gathered enough evidence to prove it was one man, eventually leading to his capture.
QXLe TIL: Russia still owns a piece of Europe totally separate and isolated from the rest of Russia.
MePDB TIL metal musicians recorded a charity single in 1985 named Stars
MeLwa TIL the corpse of a construction worker still remained, and was partially visible from the street, in the New Orleans Hard Rock Hotel more than 3 months after the site's collapse.