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TIL Samsung just launched the largest ship in the world. It is 12 times larger than the Titanic.

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mxaXp TIL that all human babies are born colorblind
lenG TIL a local street sweeper from Detroit, Michigan, managed to catch and save 2 babies falling from buildings in separate incidents 1 year apart from each other.
xV0xB TIL that the reason so many African flags have green, yellow and red is because of the Ethiopian flag; as one of the few independent African nations during the colonial period, the new countries of Africa looked to them for inspiration
Z8b5D TIL that in the mid-1990s, a man in Montana was able to build fully armed Cobra attack helicopters out of supposedly demilitarized military surplus parts. He then used them to hunt coyotes.
BrP8y TIL about Ziph’s Law which says that frequency of any word is inversely proportional to its rank in the frequency table. The word “the” is the most used word in English, the second most used word is used 1/2 that amount, the third 1/3, and so on. This is true not just for English but all languages.