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TIL The Titanic Was Found During A Secret Cold War Navy Mission

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awnKb TIL outtakes from curb your enthusiasm once saved a guy from death row, the accused could not prove they were at a baseball game at the time of a murder, until outtakes of an episode of curb showed that in fact the man was there.
d8KGr TIL During the Winter War, Finns used mannequins posing as officers to draw fire from Soviet snipers. The Finns would then return fire with the Lahti L-39, a 20 mm anti-tank rifle.
kKgW TIL World record for the highest fall without a parachute belongs to an air hostess named Vesna Vulovic. She survived 33,333 feet as she was nestled between a catering trolley, a dead body and the tail section of the plane. The first thing she asked for after waking up from coma was a cigarette!
6MJ TIL Bill Bailey was the first person to be recorded doing the Moonwalk, not MJ. [12:53]
d8x0K TIL - In Germany there exists the only tree in the world with its own mailing address. The "matchmaking" tree receives about 1,000 letters per year from singles looking for love. Anyone can take letters from the tree and respond. It is estimated the tree is responsible for over 100 marriages.