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TIL of Carl McCunn, a wildlife photographer who arranged to be flown out to remote Alaskan wilderness but forgot to schedule when he'd be picked up. He wrote of a plane spotting him stranded, in his excitement he accidentally gave the pilot an "All is well" signal, his diary was found with his body

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kO4Yd TIL India was controlled by a giant British company, with a private army twice the size of the British army, and not the British government for nearly 100 years (1757–1858) before the British Raj was formed.
9wvJr TIL Confucianism was introduced to Japan near the end of the third century when Wani from Korea sent the Confucian Analects to Emperor Ōjin. Japanese militarist rulers regarded Confucian teachings as a way to emphasize a common East Asian cultural heritage
oBnlW TIL a drifter named Theodore Coneys, AKA the Denver Spider Man, broke into a man’s house and hid in the tiny attic, ended up murdering the man, then continued to hide in the attic for months during the murder investigation, while the murdered man’s wife still lived in the house.
n7Gb TIL Pablo Picasso would often make a sketch on his checks before signing them, knowing no one would cash them since they were now worth more than the face value of the check.
XE0nP TIL that during his military Service, Future President George HW Bush was shot down along with 8 others when they attacked a small island called Chichi Jima. All the other pilots were cannibalized by Japanese soldiers, and Bush was only able to escape by being picked up by a submarine.