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nM7B TIL that one of the dangers of working in a tryworks (a furnace in the whaling industry) is that a rotting pregnant whale could fill with gas and burst, ejecting a fetus the size of a motor vehicle with sufficient force to kill a man
rREoo TIL of Albert Göring, brother of Hermann Göring. Unlike his brother, Albert was opposed to Nazism and helped many Jews and other persecuted minorities throughout the war. He was shunned in postwar Germany due to his name, and died without any public recognition for his humanitarian efforts.
AygB TIL that in 2009 Billy Joel’s daughter tried to commit suicide by taking a bunch of homeopathic pills. She survived.
Rxy9 TIL Quentin Tarantino considered ‘The Matrix’ the second best movie since he started directing, but he considered the sequels so bad that he had to downgrade it.
yap TIL Rick Rescorla moved from Britain to fight in Vietnam, was a hero at Ia Drang, and saved all but 7 of his 2,700 employs by running up and down 20 flights of stairs with a bull horn during the 9/11 terror attacks… which took his life.