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TIL HMS Porcupine was blown in half by a German torpedo, the two halves were towed back to the UK and recommissioned as two ships; HMS Pork and HMS Pine

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KYwGR TIL you used to be able to call POP-CORN to get the current time
9ym7 TIL that in 2012, NYU-Poly constructed a robotic fish and placed it in a tank of golden shiners. After simulating the tail movements of a leader fish, the robotic fish was eventually accepted and became their leader.
aBrA TIL, there is plan to extract 7,250,000,000kg of plastic from the oceans in just 5 years.
QPDd TIL that on April Fool’s Day 1997, Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak and Jeopardy host Alex Trebek swapped shows for the day.
5VBnr TIL Eva Peron (Evita), wife of Argentina's president Juan Peron, died of cervical cancer at the age of 33.He never told her that she had cancer and was dying. Ironically, his first wife also died of cervical cancer at 28 yrs old. Doctors felt that he passed the HPV virus on to his wives.