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TIL In 2009 a Man Who Was an Expert on How to Avoid Being Kidnapped in Mexico Was Kidnapped in Mexico After Giving a Lecture On “How To Not Be Kidnapped in Mexico”

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R77Mw TIL (organic) sponges are animals - not plants.
G8AE TIL a billionaire hedge fund manager spent $50million investigating HERBALIFE and exposing it as pyramid scheme in a public presentation. HERBALIFE share price shot up 25% as a result.
yV59X TIL that an ESA Astronaut nearly drowned in his spacesuit during a 2013 spacewalk.
Yp8gG TIL In the 1990s, an issue of the popular The Amazing Spider-Man that sold around 70,000 would be considered a failure. These days, what counts as a successful superhero book is anything that can sell a regular 40-60,000 copies. Most sell quite a bit less.
yQ0mV TIL that in the last days of the war, South Vietnamese major Buang-Ly on a stolen plane with his family (wife and 2 children) dropped a note on USS Midway pleading to allow him to land. Comd. Chambers gave orders to push overboard millions of dollars' worth of helicopters to make room for landing.