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TIL that in 1833, the first passenger ship to make a transatlantic voyage almost entirely steam-powered was the SS Royal William

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GAJXJ TIL That the theoretical black dwarf star is expected to be able to live for up to 10 to the power of 32000 years, meaning that when they go supernova may make it the last transient to occur before the heat death of the universe.
mxRVy TIL about Caodaism a Syncretic Religion with about 4.4 million adherents . Their Pantheon Includes Joan of Arc , William Shakespeare, Jesus ,Muhammed and Lenin (among others).
9xEM TIL that 10,000 years ago, everyone’s eyes were brown until someone living by the Black Sea developed a genetic mutation turning brown eyes blue
YYBA TIL that in 2006 Werner Herzog stumbled upon a rolled car. He pulled a confused man out of the wreck after he tried to light a cigarette when there was a fuel leak. That man was Joaquín Phoenix
eoXD TIL that “Lawrence of Arabia” and “50 Shades of Grey” were edited by the same person