› added 10 months ago

330

TIL Ahmed Gabr set the deepest scuba dive of all time in 2014, reaching a depth of 1,090 feet. He spent almost a decade preparing for the dive, which took only 15 minutes to descend but over 13 hours to ascend back to the surface.

Read more divemagazine.com

via reddit.com

PYawe TIL Orville Redenbacher died from drowning in his Jacuzzi.
R5xY7 TIL that PinkPantheress's mixed background is the same as Obm's.
a8g9y TIL Blue Manakin birds perform complex group dancing routines
EPAP TIL that Brittany Murphy died of pneumonia (and drugs) as did her husband a year later. The cause of this coincidence is unknown but is believed to be due to the mold of the house they live in.
KZyB TIL The largest ransom ever paid to a single individual was to the Spanish conquistador, Francisco Pizarro, by the Inca Empire before their leader, Atahualpa, the victim, was executed in 1532. The ransom payment of a “roomful of gold” was probably over $2 billion in today’s economic markets.