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TIL that in 2001, a 13-year-old Boy Scout named Cody Clawson went missing for over 18 hours near Yellowstone Park. Clawson resorted to using his belt buckle to signal to planes overhead. Eventually, he got a pilot’s attention - and that pilot was none other than Harrison Ford - who rescued Clawson.

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jWgn TIL Evolution doesn’t “plan” to improve an organism’s fitness to survive; it is simply a goalless process where random mutations can aid, hinder or have no effect on an organism’s ability to survive and reproduce
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d86LK TIL that Navy Seals who carried out the Bin Laden kill mission, forgot to bring a tape measure and had to measure Laden's height by making a six feet tall Seal lie down next to Laden's corpse
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