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TIL that there is a life size replica of the Titanic - in Tennessee...

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DQw6e TIL James Longstreet’s (Confederate general and US Minister to the Ottoman Empire) second wife, Helen Dortch Longstreet, died in 1962 at the age of 99. They got married in 1897, he was 74 and she was 34. She was widowed in 1904, childless.
berZ TIL that it was Richard Nixon who unilaterally ordered the discontinuation of the United States’ biological and chemical weapons programs.
Vanm TIL Stephen King’s formula on writing is “Read and write four to six hours a day. If you cannot find the time for that, you can’t expect to become a good writer.” He sets out each day with a quota of 2000 words and will not stop writing until it is met.
4kg TIL that Tesla said that if you stick a rod far enough into space the temperature difference would create an electrical current and a motor could be run off it and that this (while not doing any work itself) did not violate the second law of thermodynamics.
lo14N TIL The Moon Is Bigger Than Pluto