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TIL that when the Titanic was found in 1985, the famous Grand Staircase (appearing in many films of the sinking) was missing. During the filming of the 1997 movie, the replica was torn out by the water when the set was flooded; the real staircase was likely ripped out of the ship in the same way.

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xVEZb TIL In 1911, Mexican Government killed over 300 chinese inmigrants in the city of Torreón, Coahuila. The event touched off a diplomatic crisis between China and Mexico. At one point it was rumored that China had even dispatched a warship to Mexican waters
E1oyx TIL Two Senior White House officials testified that they were involved in a plan to murder American Journalist Jack Anderson. They were either going to stage a fake mugging or poison him and the plan was only cancelled because the CIA agents ordered to carry it out were arrested in Watergate.
69yyZ TIL the Seattle Seahawks have the fewest yards from a team in an NFL game, with -7 yards against the Rams on November 4, 1979.
v1d98 TIL that Steve Martin has won more Grammy awards for playing banjo than he did for comedy.
Y91x TIL in the Roosevelt Roosevelt Room in The White House, Democratic administrations would traditionally hang a portrait of FDR, who was a Democrat, over the mantel, while Republican administrations would in turn hang a portrait of Teddy, a republican, there.