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TIL in 2022 a man won a free drink in an air-guitar competition while on a cruise, which is his last memory before waking up overboard in the Gulf of Mexico without the ship in sight. He treaded water for 18 hours & was stung by two swarms of jellyfish all over his legs & arms before being rescued.

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XE90E TIL the only remake to win an Oscar for best picture is 'The Departed'
Po6w TIL if the Milky Way were the size of the United States, our solar system would be the size of a quarter
mjyv TIL that there is a 150-year-old mosque in Iran that, when viewed from the interior at certain hours of the day, produces an intense kaleidoscopic effect due to its unique pattern of tiling and colored glass
Y7QGx TIL Nashville Hot Chicken was invented when a scorned lover, usually referred today as just "Girlfriend X" wanted to teach her cheating boyfriend, Thornton Prince, a lesson, so she put a punch of hot peppers in his batch of wings, but he ended up loving it and worked to perfect the recipe.
lo9ZK TIL Tongs are so engraved in society that it is believed by the jewish people that god created them on the seventh day right before resting. This is because blacksmiths need a pair of tongs to create tongs.