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TIL a homeless man snuck into Sea World to go swimming with the killer whales. Was found dead and naked in the whale tank the next day

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XE7BE TIL of Patty Cannon who was notorious for leading a gang that kidnapped free blacks and sold them back into slavery in what was known as the Reverse Underground Railroad. In 1829, she was arrested for murdering a slave owner and stealing his $15,000.
wr77 TIL Fidel Castro had sex with 35,000 women, according to an ex-Castro official. At least two a day for more than four decades. ‘One for lunch and one for supper. Sometimes he even ordered one for breakfast.’
X0gQr TIL about the Nordic Model
4bRN TIL the heat from the Vesuvius eruption was so intense, the skulls of those caught in it literally exploded by the pressure of vaporizing brain tissue and boiling blood.
p60e TIL that the US government paid an average of $1.8 million to the families of the victims of 9/11