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TIL that there are a pair of replica Titanics, 4 stories tall, that serve as museums to the disaster. They're in rural Tennessee and Missouri, amongst cornfields, 3000 miles from the disaster.

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VMQjB TIL that the Dragon’s Breath, the world’s second hottest pepper, was developed for its essential oil having potential as a skin anaesthetic, and later cultivated by a breeder who had not planned to breed the chili for record heat, but rather was trying to grow an attractive pepper plant.
ZYZB TIL that the ‘50% of marriages end in divorce’ claim is a myth; the overall rate has never exceeded 41%, has been declining from that high since the 1980s, and the divorce rate for college graduates is probably under 25%
MeRpW TIL of Kathy Hobbs, a girl who had a premonition that she wouldn’t live to be 16. She reached the age and relaxed, making plans for her future. 3 months later, she was abducted and killed. She’d written letters to her family, dated 1 month before her birthday, telling them how much she loved them.
R5L07 TIL multiple recent studies have shown detrimental roles played by maltodextrin in the intestinal environment, suggesting that this broadly used food additive may play a role in the rapid increased incidence of chronic inflammatory disorders
p8oOG TIL that Geographical Information Systems were invented in Canada by Roger Tomlinson, a Brit.