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TIL shipwrecks grow "rusticles"

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16WN7 TIL: In 1904 people were driving electric cars with 100 mile ranges and they cost $2500.
Y7ZPB TIL that the U.S. Army created four fake armies and over 20 fake divisions, including insignia and documents, to mislead and confuse the Germans during WWII
0w09A TIL In Denmark, you can only choose your babies name from a name list with 7000 names
dDeaB TIL that during a troop carrying mission in World War 2, the RMS Queen Mary was struck by a rogue wave and came within three degrees of capsizing. Paul Gallico, who was on board, would later write The Poseidon Adventure based on this incident.
8ePXX TIL manuscripts maintained by double cloisters where monks and nuns allied together and physically located next to each other had more repairs done to parchment (skin) tears and holes than standalone cloisters. Some repairs used the parchment holes as a starting point for illustrations