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TIL following Hurricane Katrina, the Coast Guard immediately began rescuing survivors, without consulting Washington, days ahead of the rest of the federal response.

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R7MG1 TIL the Occam's razor isn't the only philosophical razor, and there even is one called Newton's flaming laser sword which states "what cannot be settled by experiment is not worth debating"
mxPwo TIL 10 year old Candace Newmaker was suffocated to death during a "re-birthing" therapy session which simulated her being born again. (Transcript in link)
wLOQE TIL claw machines can be rigged by programming them to have a strong grip only part of the time, allowing the owner to select a desired level of profit and then automatically adjust the claw strength to make sure that players are only winning a limited number of times
vKOR TIL the reason that the original Lara Croft had such large breasts is that the size was accidentally set to 150% by designer, Tony Gard. The rest of the crew convinced him to keep it that way.
Y5Gr TIL that a woman once tried to smuggle suitcases made out of 15 kilos of cocaine into Spain.