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TIL The U.S.S. Constitution maintains about 10 to 20 percent of its original wood, including the lower futtocks, keel and the deadwood at the stem and stern.

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8alEb TIL the US government has over one billion cubic meters of helium stored in a strategic reserve in Texas. The reserve was started in the 1920s and was originally intended for airships, but was later used as a coolant for the space program.
m8x TIL that General Butt Naked would drink the blood or eat the heart of a small child he’d hunted down before going into battle naked except for sneakers and a machine gun, was responsible for 20,000 civilian deaths, and after converting to Christianity has yet to be prosecuted for war crimes.
mxjNP TIL Alec Douglas-Home (UK Prime Minister 63-64), Once talked himself out of being kidnapped by telling the kidnappers, he'll win the next election if they do.
DQPAg TIL amputees who experience Phantom Itching where their limb use to be often use a mirror and scratch the opposite limb to trick the brain into satisfying the urge.
j6Brn TIL the current and the first president of Barbados is a woman (Sandra Mason) after Barbados ceased to be a constitutional monarchy and became a republic and the current prime minister of Barbados is also woman (Mia Mottley)