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TIL while 1500 people died on the Titanic, it isn’t the worst maritime disaster in history. Almost 10 thousand people died when a German military transport ship was sunk by a Soviet submarine in 1945

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6wQJ TIL Tennessee Aquarium has a twitter acount that sends out tweets powered by an electric eel
nWe4b TIL the internet has a weight, calculated in 2007 to be about 60 grams, or 6 micrograms, depending which method you use to calculate the weight of the active electrons necessary to sustain it
EwVx TIL that in the history of Ireland’s inventions, there’s a 300-year gap after the invention of whiskey.
PjEg TIL there is a fruit called the Black Sapote aka the Chocolate Pudding Fruit, that tastes just like a chocolate pudding and contains 4 times the Vitamin C of an orange!
xGxo TIL In 1996, a socialist bicycle sharing experiment, the “Orange Bike Project” organized in Tucson, Arizona was terminated after only five months of operation due to the 80 bright orange bikes, available for anyone, had all been intentionally damaged or stolen within a few weeks.