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TIL: All of the world's four deepest caves are in located in Abkhazia. The record-holder is Veryovkina Cave, which goes down at least 1.3 miles. Due to the hazards and need for specialized rope techniques, "the round trip —top to bottom and back— takes professional speleologists about a week."

mx6Ey TIL When Al Kaplon lost his job as a minor league umpire, he took his talents to Hollywood and has been an umpire or referee on movies and TV like "American Gladiators", "The X-Flies", and "Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story". He's even been an umpire for a Viagra ad.
ZpXnp TIL David Bowie was so convinced of the uncommercial viability of his album "Low" that after its release, he toured as Iggy Pop's keyboardist instead of promoting the new record.
epeBD TIL About Sir Mansfield Smith-Cumming who became the first head of what is now known as the SIS in the UK. He had the habit of signing official documents with the letter 'C' in green ink a tradition which carried over to his successors and was the inspiration for James Bond's 'M'.
prAe TIL Pablo Escobar murdered a Presidential candidate/The secretary of Justice/The inspector General/various congressman/kidnapped the future president/murdered the Chief editor of the biggest Newspaper/and bankrolled an operation that ended with the death of almost all the supreme court justices
eXQb TIL: The Queen of Britain technically owns all whales and dolphins in UK waters, due to a law dating from 1324, and all swans in the Thames.