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TIL because of naval tradition, submarines are usually referred to as boats rather than as ships, regardless of their size.

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Y76JB TIL: Joan and Melissa played themselves in the 1994 biopic "Tears and Laughter: The Joan and Melissa Rivers Story."
6E1y7 TIL That Antarctica was originally called Terra Australis until the nineteenth century, when the colonial authorities in Sydney removed the Dutch name from New Holland. Instead of inventing a new name to replace it, they took the name Australia from Antarctica leaving it nameless for eighty years.
L4nQ TIL in the Senate, there is a desk with a drawer, filled with candy of the of the designated Senator’s choice.
QKpL TIL after the popularity of Steve Earle’s song “Copperhead Road,” the actual Copperhead Road in Mountain City, TN was changed to “Copperhead Hollow Rd” after people kept stealing road signs bearing the song’s title.
16B0V TIL Malo kingi or the common kingslayer is an Australian Irukandji jellyfish named after Robert King - an American tourist killed by one of them in 2002. They are the smallest jellyfish in the world, the size of a thumbnail and hospitalise 50-100 people each year. Their venom causes haemorrhaging.