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TIL that only 48 people were rescued out of 212 cruise ship overboard incidents from 2009 to 2019.

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DQEor TIL in 1975, the representative of Queen Elizabeth II dismissed the Australian Prime Minister from office
D7wv TIL In the 1960s, a convent in L.A. agreed to a psychology experiment where the nuns were encouraged to verbalize and respond to their emotions. Within a year more than half the nuns had petitioned to be released from their vows and all that remained was a “small group of radical lesbian nuns.”
WkQ1X TIL after the original script for ‘The Hateful Eight’ was leaked in a hack and distributed online, Tarantino vowed to never make another film. However, the cast, namely Samuel L. Jackson, were so impressed by the script during a live reading, that Tarantino was convinced to go ahead and make it.
GA95Q TIL ‘Genius dogs’ can learn names of more than 100 toys, study finds
WyA9 TIL Ian Fleming named James Bond after an American bird expert and stated he chose the name because he wanted Bond to be “an extremely dull, uninteresting man to whom things happened…I thought by God, James Bond is the dullest name I ever heard.”