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TIL in 2011, PETA mocked a 21 year old man who was attacked by a shark while he was spearfishing, calling the attack ‘payback.’

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w96M TIL a Canadian native and animal trapper called Grey Owl gained prominence in the early 1900s as a respected environmental conservationist. Upon his death it was revealed that he was actually a transplanted Englishman named Archibald Belaney, who had been colouring his skin and dying his hair black.
mVvP TIL there was an animal described as “something like a cross between a horse and a gorilla” called a Chalicothere.
xVj70 TIL that on the Mississippi River in the 1850s, the word "two" was often pronounced "twain." When leadsmen measured a depth of two fathoms, they shouted "mark twain!" The American writer Mark Twain, a former river pilot from Missouri, got his pen name from this phrase.
rRkN1 TIL when the ship the HMS Guardian struck an iceberg in 1789, its captain decided to stay on it with 62 people. 259 left in boats. However, the captain was able to save the ship and sail back to land. It took 9 weeks, but everyone on the ship made it. Of the 259 that left, only 15 survived.
jNnKv TIL that after returning from WWII over 1 million black americans were denied the benefits of the GI bill for free education and low rate home loans