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TIL of Mercy Ships, cruise ships converted to hospitals that float the African coast treating patients at no cost.

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9YZwQ TIL that we don't see pure black when we close our eyes, we see a color named Eigengrau and although there are a few theories as to what causes it nobody's quite sure.
XEv0Q TIL that Iceberg B-15 was the world's largest recorded iceberg. It measured around 295 kilometres (183 mi) long and 37 kilometres (23 mi) wide, with a surface area of 11,000 square kilometres (4,200 sq mi)—making it larger than the island of Jamaica.
p8Yde It's not that they can't. They just don't need to, says Mike Murray, a veterinarian at the Monterey Bay Aquarium in California. Birds have the anatomical and physical ability to pass gas, he explains, "but if I saw gas in a bird's gastrointestinal tract on an x-ray, I'd suspect that something abnormal was going on in there."
JYa9k TIL that in 1953, a North Korean fighter pilot defected to South Korea with his MiG-15 and was rewarded $100,000 from the United States
epn9L TIL Janet Jackson's Rhythm Nation music video produces a resonant frequency capable of crashing the hard drives of older laptops.