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TIL that Harrison Okene (a cook) survived 3 days at the bottom of the ocean in a sunken ship by finding an air pocket

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XEYBk TIL that almost all the people of Xanthos, an ancient Lycian city in Anatolia, committed mass suicide in two events 500 years apart to avoid capture, first by the Persians and then by the Romans
GYbP1 TIL the most lopsided officially recorded soccer score in history was 149-0. The losing team intentionally scored 149 own goals to protest refereeing from previous games.....
M49B TIL: Some airlines will not let an adult male passenger sit next to an unaccompanied child. British Airways was sued because of this practice and lost, admitting to sex discrimination. They have since ended the policy but other airlines still defend it.
ep4n4 TIL of Natalia Grace, a 9-year-old orphan whose adopted parents claimed she was actually a 22-year-old sociopath.
0wbKj TIL that in 1992, a cargo container containing over 28,000 plastic rubber ducks was lost at sea when it fell overboard on its way from Hong Kong to the United States. These ducks are still being found on shores all across the world in places such as Alaska and Australia.