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TIL in 1985, a volcanic mudslide in Colombia trapped a 13-year old girl’s legs in debris with her head above water. Omayra Sánchez survived like this for 60 hours, even doing interviews with the press, before finally dying.

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9OaQ TIL that a Spanish double-agent played a major role in hoodwinking the Nazis, paving the way for a successful Normandy campaign and the eventual surrender of the Germans in WW2.
p8R6O TIL A U.S. Government Employee Ran a South Central LA Drug Ring in the 1980's; the DOJ Removed this finding from the CIA Inspector General Report before giving it to Congress -- U.S. Congresswoman Maxine Waters & Reporter Gary Webb Found a Secret Agreement that exempted the CIA from reporting Drugs
O51a TIL at age 47 Al Capone regressed to the mental capacity of a 12 year-old-child due to brain damage caused by the neurosyphilis and spent the last years of his life in his Florida mansion raving about Communists, foreigners, and Bugs Moran, who he was convinced was plotting to kill him.
yaoJ TIL there is a genetic defect among Fruit Flies that cause them to die within two days. Its discoverer named the defect “Kenny” after the character in South Park.
wowJE TIL of the Colditz Cock, a glider built by British POWs imprisoned in Colditz castle in WWII. Made mostly of stolen wood and cloth, the glider could fit two men and was constructed in an attic above the chapel. The POWs finished the glider just before being liberated, and it never flew.