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TIL Gross Tonnage is Measure of a Ship’s Internal Space, Not its Weight.

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MLvA TIL: Two bystanders were shot in Detroit when two men got into an argument over who made better Kool-Aid
4X00a TIL even though a Rubiks cube has 43,252,003,274,489,856,000 (43 quintillions) different combinations, it can always be solved in 20 moves or less.
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