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TIL Throughout recorded history, a wild orca has never killed a human, even though they are capable of ending even a greath white shark. Captive orcas have however have killed 4 people, out of which 3 were done by the same specimen.

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WkKaX TIL in 1993, the U.S. signed Public Law 103-150, also known as "The Apology Resolution". This acknowledged that the overthrow of the Kingdom of Hawaii in 1893 was an illegal act. Hawaiians have used this resolution as an argument for their sovereignty.
Lyyv TIL: Carrie Fisher made George Lucas give her a copy of the Star Wars Christmas Special. She now plays it at the end of parties when she wants everyone to leave.
9YaP6 TIL Atlantropa was a gigantic engineering colonisation idea devised by the German architect Herman Sörgel in the 1920s. The project was devised to contain several hydroelectric dams in key points of the Mediterranean Sea to cause a sea level drop and create new land to settle.
nZvr TIL an Air Canada passenger flight took a detour and dropped from 37,000 feet to 4,000 feet to help find a stranded yacht off the Australian coast. It took the passengers 25 minutes after the emergency beacon was activated to locate the yacht.
Y7PlW TIL that Canada's Dempster Highway, the only public road to cross the Arctic Circle, once had a 109-mile stretch called Tuktoyaktuk Winter Road. Tuktoyaktuk Winter Road was purely made of ice and could only be operated, especially by large trucks, during the winter as the river below was frozen.