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TIL all the poop generated on the US Navy’s newest aircraft carrier will be vaporized by plasma.

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LQma9 TIL Until 1958 Popes were embalmed by having all their organs removed. Pious XII was against this so a novel method was used: it went so bad that his body started rapidly decaying while still in public view and the ceremony was canceled after the chemical reactions made the swiss guards fall ill
6RvW TIL the divide between West Germany and East Germany was so sharply defined it lead to houses and buildings being split down the middle
b95Wj TIL that domestic cats' intelligence may apply "if I fits I sits" even in perceived spaces -- for instance, a cat will still try to sit in a 2D optical illusion that can be perceived as a 3D container (Illusory contours)
R5dva TIL William the Conqueror had a son named Richard who was killed in a freak accident as a teenager, struck by an overhanging branch while riding.
QJmle TIL about Eats, Shoots & Leaves a book dedicated to Bolshevik printers of St. Petersburg who, in 1905, demanded to be paid the same rate for punctuation marks as for letters, and thereby directly precipitated the first Russian Revolution.