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TIL The nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Enterprise is the second oldest commissioned warship in the US navy, has served for 51 years and is due to be made inactive tomorrow. So passes the eighth vessel to bear the name.

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oBwXL Til: Norwegian National Law of 1274 had prohibitions against consorting with trolls.
WJnN TIL In 1524 a statue of Virgin Mary was charged as being a witch and was sent to a trial by water, when the statue floated they denounced it as a witch and burnt it.
b9VZ7 TIL the hole in Alice in Wonderland was inspired by the gypsum sinkholes in Ripon, Yorkshire. A girl called Mary Badcock may have inspired Alice, and in 1999 there was a sinkhole in her garden.
oN68 TIL In 2011 the US mint lost $60,200,000 producing the one cent coin because each penny costs 2.41¢ to produce.
KO4oE TIL The Godfather's famous cat-in-lap scene was entirely unscripted. A stray cat randomly wandered onto the set, so Coppola grabbed it and put it in Marlin Brando's lap without a word.