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TIL that every US Coast Guard cadet trains aboard a tall ship captured from Hitler’s navy.

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JYL8m TIL of the Kaningara tribe of Papua New Guinea, who used to use bamboo knives to cut the flesh of boys and young men, to fill them with the power of the crocodile spirit.
8QaX TIL; That Roald Dahl the author of kid’s stories wrote the screenplay for the Bond movie “You only live twice”
N7yOP TIL The average adult in Indonesia is around 5 feet 1.8 inches tall, making it the country with the lowest average height in the world.
QJwNe TIL a 6 year-old, Bea Dean-Lewis, was playing a computer game with her mom, who suddenly collapsed. Bea knew she wasn't sleeping since she snores, so she used her mom's fingerprint to unlock her phone and call the ambulance, saving her life.
xxRk TIL A gymnast at the Rio Olympics named Marisa Dick created a new move for the balance beam and was the first to use it in competition. A “change-leg leap to free-cross split sit” is now known as The Dick Move.