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

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BrE5b TIL in 2014, Harvard University discovered that a book inside their library from the 1880s was bound together using human skin. The book was named Destinies Of The Soul and was written by Dr. Bouland. In the book, he left this note: "A book about the human soul deserved to have human covering."
oB8Ro TIL Newspeak from "Nineteen Eighty-Four" is based on an actual language proposal - Basic English, a proposed easy-to-learn version of English with only 850 core words.
d8lkd TIL in 2015 more Americans reported being of German ancestry than being black.
xVBn5 TIL the PHSCC and NOAACOC are members of the Uniformed Services of the US, but are not part of the US military.
7r6Dx TIL that the strongest recorded hurricane/typhoon/cyclone in history in terms of 1-minute average wind speed, 2015's Hurricane Wilma at 215 mph (345 km/h) in the east Pacific, formed and then dissipated in a span of just 5 days.