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TIL that the morning after the Titanic sank, a man on a nearby vessel who was unaware of the sinking photographed an iceberg with a red streak he suspected to be paint from a ship. For years the law firm for White Star Line, the Titanic’s owner, had the original displayed in their office.

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Z8dwQ TIL George Lucas named Tosche Station on Tatooine after Dave Toschi, the San Francisco Police Department’s chief investigator in the Zodiac Killer case
5YGKB TIL Ivy league schools all had ties to the Opium trade in the late 19th century with major benefactors using their drug money to fund libraries, societies and even Princeton itself. Undergrads even began running opium dens from Boston to New York until a Harvard student OD'd in 1889.
b9y9Q TIL that the five-digit zip code didn’t exist until the 60s, wasn’t mandatory until the 70s, and the plus-four didn’t exist until the 80s.
DQLdD TIL why NHL Stadiums sound an air horn after a goal is scored. Thank Bill Wirtz, owner of both Chicago Stadium and the Blackhawks, who liked the sound of his air horn on his yacht, so he had one installed inside the stadium in 1973. His uncle's company made it, and most NHL horns come from them.
KYv1J TIL Jeanne Calment, a French woman who is credited as the oldest person to ever live, having lived to 122yo. In 1965, at 90yo, she sold her French apartment in exchange for a right of occupancy and a monthly revenue of €380, until her death. She received double the value of the property by 1995.