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TIL that SOS doesn’t mean “save our ship” or “save our souls.” SOS doesn’t actually stand for anything at all and is used simply because of how easy it is to remember.

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6x0J TIL That Racing Club of Argentina had a curse put on their stadium by their fierce rivals by burying 7 dead cats under the pitch in 1967, and oddly enough they stopped winning. It took them 34 years to find all 7, after which they won the championship the same year the last cat was found.
Y7QMd TIL that the deadliest fireworks accident in the United States was the Station nightclub fire. In 2003, The Station nightclub (RI) was hosting a Great White concert when pyrotechnics ignited acoustic foam. The resulting fire saw 100 fatalities and 230 injuries
4kEma TIL Terry Crews said the reason Fox didn't promote idiocracy was because Mike Judge had companies pay for product placement and then he made them look bad (Starbucks gave out hand-jobs). The film tanked in limited release but made over 20 times its gross domestic box office revenue in DVD rentals.
oEeL TIL Haldane suffered perforated eardrums in his decompression chamber experiments upon which he stated, “the drum generally heals up; and if a hole remains in it, although one is somewhat deaf, one can blow tobacco smoke out of the ear in question, which is a social accomplishment.”
KORaw TIL The Office of Naval Intelligence at the Pentagon has an entire unit of people devoted to the study of UFO's and UFO encounters.