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TIL There is a video of GH Bush being rescued by a submarine

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p4oZ TIL that Les Stroud claims he may have encountered a “bigfoot” on two occasions while filming Survivorman
BrXad TIL the Pyramids were not built built by slaves and that many experts agree were made by many elite, skilled workers.
oB4Rr TIL before the Beatles' film, A Hard Day's Night was released in America, an executive asked the director to dub the voices of the group with mid-Atlantic accents. Paul McCartney angrily replied, "Look, if we can understand a fucking cowboy talking Texan, they can understand us talking Liverpool."
kONNm TIL that in 1939 the London zoo killed all it's venomous animals to avoid releasing dangerous animals into the city in the event that the zoo was bombed.
KLOJ TIL Harriet Tubman threatened death to escaping slaves if they wanted to turn back. “If he was weak enough to give out, he’d be weak enough to betray us all, and all who had helped us; and do you think I’d let so many die just for one coward man.”