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TIL of Devin Gaines, who earned 5 bachelor degrees at the same time from the University of Connecticut in 2007, completing 276 credits, only to drown later that year as he had never learned how to swim.

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1W0X TIL over 100 Doctor Who episodes were “taped over” by the BBC after airing and are likely lost forever, unless recorded on VHS, which was a rarer technology at that time.
b9G99 TIL that the Republic of Vanuatu (on a small Pacific island) has an underwater post office, and a post box on the rim of an active volcano
mxgkY TIL of the weird, dangerous, and isolated life of the saturation diver where a job might require the diver to stay isolated for weeks in a pressurized metal tube, up to 1000 feet below the surface of the ocean.
Oo1Qe TIL that the last Kamikaze Attack was committed by Vice Admiral Matome Ugaki hours after the Emperor Hirohito announced the Japanese Surrender. He committed the attack because he believed he was responsible for his men's failure, he wanted to show a final true spirit of Bushido
M7DVA TIL Schlachtkapelle (lit. "battle chapel") is a term used in Switzerland for a chapel dedicated to the memory of one of the battles of the Old Swiss Confederacy.