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TIL There were 12 dogs on the Titanic; 3 survived, mostly because they were tiny. There was supposed to be also one cat with young kittens on board the ship to control the rat population - but she was seen disembarking, retrieving one kitten at a time, in Southampton.

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D1jOY TIL there are 23 floating-year-round boat schools in Bangladesh due to constant flooding in the country. Starting in 2002, these schools ensure year-round education in a country where heavy monsoon rains can submerge 70% of the land mass under water.
xVdEw TIL: SEGA stands for Service Games.. and was founded by Americans..
rNWl4 TIL: That cocaine increases dopamine levels by roughly 250% in comparison with 100% from sex and %50 from food
PYRGg TIL that there is a branch of science known as Paleoacoustics which studies what fossils might have sounded like
MeAaB TIL Christopher Boyce, a college drop out who despised the CIA was given high level security clearance to handle top secret CIA wires. He then sold these top level secrets to the Soviet Union through its embassy in Mexico City. The story was a top selling book and movie "The Falcon and the Snowman"