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TIL that The ancient Egyptian port city Heracleion was said to have collapsed into the sea. Everyone thought it was a myth until 1933, when a British air force pilot spotted the undersea ruins. But it would take until 1999 for archaeologists to precisely locate the city and start exploring.

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W71bA TIL A popular drink in the UK is "beef tea", made by mixing salty meat extract paste (Bovril) into hot water. The meat paste was originally know as 'Johnston's Fluid Beef'.
kO5A1 TIL that around Christmas of 1987, Ronald Gene Simmons murdered 16 people, 14 of which included his family. Months prior to his spree, he instructed his children to dig trenches that he later used to place his family in after their deaths. He turned himself in and never appealed his death sentence.
rN4j4 TIL the 2013 El Reno tornado was more than 2.5 miles wide and had multiple vortices in it’s interior moving at speeds of 177 mph across the ground. It is the first known tornado to cause the death of storm chasers, tossing their car 600 feet through the air.
YBlr TIL The Act of Habeas Corpus 1679 was only just passed . When the votes were counted, there were not enough Lords in favour, so it was decided that one of the Lords, because he happened to be fat, was worth ten votes. It started as a joke, but remains on the statute books to this day.
rNlQ4 TIL: That for certain songs on the album "Tusk", Lindsey Buckingham played a Kleenex box as a snare drum and had Mick Fleetwood overdub his own drums over Buckingham's demos. He would also tape microphones to the studio floor and get into a sort of push-up position to sing.