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TIL Nonviolent campaigns are twice as likely to succeed outright as violent insurgencies

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pAJp TIL that when divers were collecting bodies from the wreckage of the boat Jascon-4, 3 days after it sunk, one of the divers was grabbed by a survivor who managed to survive by finding an air pocket in the toilet.
Won9 TIL Pasty white skin was considered more attractive until the 1920’s when Coco Chanel accidentally got a sunburn while on vacation and people started to emulate her.
Lywd TIL that Leonard Nimoy (the man that is famous for playing Spock) performed a slightly bizarre and extremely campy song called The Ballad of Bilbo Baggins. It was followed by a campaign to cast him as Aragorn in a live-action rendition of Lord of the Rings.
eQ4D TIL A Canadian military veteran amputee had to submit annual paperwork to prove his legs were still missing in order to continue his disability benefits.
XEgRQ The U.S. Navy has officially published three videos that show UFOs are genuine, several years after the notorious clips first leaked online and properly ushered in the UFO renaissance. Last year, the Navy confirmed the three videos, taken by Navy pilots, indeed show “unexplained aerial phenomena,” but the service also said the footage should have never been released to the public in the first place.