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TIL: Cruise ships use up to 250 tons of fuel per day.

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OorMe TIL that Barbara Hutton was worth the equivalent of over $1 billion in the 1930s, but due to her extreme generosity, died with only $3500. She married 7 times: a Georgian prince, a Danish count, actor Cary Grant, a Russian prince, a notorious Dominican playboy, a German baron, and a Cambodian prince
QJMr9 Til A museum in New York sheds light on the history of chocolate. Anthropologists find, chocolate was produced by pre-Olmec cultures living in Mesoamerica(now Mexico) as early as 1900 B.C. After the Spanish colonized Mexico in 1524, they acquired the recipe of chocolate and brought it to Europe
OG6BX TIL the last ninja is still alive. His name is Jinichi Kawakami and he was born in 1949.
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d8g1Q TIL that one in every 5,000 babies is born without a butthole. This condition is called “imperforate anus” and the baby has to have one created manually in the hospital. The cause of this is not fully understood but it is believed to be caused by abnormal development of the rectum.