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TIL about Kit Musgrave, a Royal Navy officer who survived the torpedoing of three different British cruisers within one hour on one very bad day in 1914. He survived WW I. He re-enlisted in the Royal Navy in 1939 as Britain entered WW II. He again survived and lived another 50 years.

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b9dvZ TIL of the ABC Islands bear, a unique subspecies of grizzly bear found on Admiralty, Baranof and Chichagof islands in Southeast Alaska (known as the ABC islands) Isolated from the mainland these bears look similar to grizzlies but have a unique DNA structure that relates them brown and polar bears
pKZO TIL when Jay Z was chosen to headline Glastonbury in 2008, Oasis’ guatarist, Noel Gallagher went on a rant about how it’s wrong to have Hip Hop at the festival so Jay Z opened his set with a cover of “Wonderwall”
lopXN TIL the film Shrek was based on a children's book "Shrek!" that was published in 1990
kO1rm TIL that in 2002, a widely-watched live TV special followed a robot as it crawled through a 5" opening in the Great Pyramid of Giza, punched a hole in a door at the end of the passage, and inserted a fiber optic camera into the hole. Behind the door was nothing but a small empty space.
e0kDb TIL of Pierre Brassau, an artist of the “avant-garde modern art” style. He was a chimpanzee, promoted by a Swedish journalist, to see if critics could distinguish between the style and the work of a chimpanzee. Most critics praised the work.