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TIL in 1871 most of the 400 members of the shipwrecked HMS Megaera had to spend up to 3 months on the volcanic Saint Paul Island

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6Ewxw TIL the Atakapa people in SW Louisiana survived hurricanes by tying themselves up to live oak trees using grape and rattan vines. In 1830, the Atakapa begged a colonist to tie himself and his family high in a live oak tree for their safety; they refused and he and his family drowned.
x6Xxw TIL that IMDb, the Internet Movie Database, was purchased by Amazon in 1998 and has been owned by them since then
D1WnV TIL that the most amount of tornadoes that occur per square mile, is in England mainly between Reading and London (along the River Thames).
78wOZ TIL about the Council of Constance (1414-1418), that resolved the Western Schism within the Catholic Church. It arranged the renunciation of both Roman pope Gregory XII and Pisan antipope John XXIII. The Avignon antipope Benedict XIII was excommunicated, while pope Martin V was elected
RjQ1 TIL that possums and opossums are actually two completely different animals. They share the fact that they are marsupials, but no other relation, and they live on opposite sides of the planet.