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TIL andy kaufman produced the arguably greatest troll idea in history, in which he demanded during a mainstream show he was an actor for, that they broadcast 30 seconds of static to fuck with people who would think their TVs were broken

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9wNvQ TIL there is a partially underwater prison near the capital of Estonia that is a popular diving spot. The lake under which it is submerged was the quarry where the prisoners worked when the prison was operational. When it was abandoned the groundwater submerged it.
OR7L TIL of the mutation gynandromorphism. It is a mutation in which half an organism is male, and the other half is female. It is usually split vertically and is estimated to occur in 1 in 5000 birds.
69PlJ TIL as of 2016, 40 percent of the 2,753 who died during the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks still have not been identified.
nA5W TIL Kars4Kids donations go to a Jewish charity that sends kids on heritage trips to Israel
v1paK TIL that a company in China has been building a true-to-scale replica of the Titanic for use as a tourist attraction. The interesting part is that the finished attraction will include a "hit the iceberg experience"...an audio/visual simulation of the Titanic's iceberg collision.