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TIL that we are in the middle of the sixth mass extinction called Holocene extinction

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X0w0r TIL while sailing from Tahiti to San Diego, Tami Oldham Ashford & her fiancé's boat temporarily capsized when they got caught in a hurricane. Tami got knocked out & woke up 27 hours later with her fiancé missing. Over the next 41 days, she used a sextant & a watch to navigate 1.5K miles to Hawaii.
M70BA TIL the Brooklyn bridge originally was called the New York and Brooklyn bridge
R798l TIL about Sandbranch, a town about 14 Miles from Dallas which hasn't had running water for more than 30 Years
OnwL TIL that there is a table saw that automatically stops in less 1/1000th of a second when it comes in contact with flesh, and the inventor was crazy enough to test it with his finger.
Pnln TIL: There’s an island in the Bahamas famous for its swimming pigs