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TIL Nancy Grace has been linked to two separate suicides

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78VPZ TIL that in 2014, Diana Nyad became the first person to swim from Cuba to Florida without using a shark cage. She endured a 104-mile swim through jellyfish and shark-infested waters, taking approximately 53 hours. Amazingly, she was 64 years old when she made this swim.
kOEb1 TIL: Friday 13th Superstition has its origins in a Norse myth about 12 gods having a dinner party at Valhalla. The uninvited 13th guest, the mischievous god Loki arranged for Hoder, the blind god of darkness, to shoot Balder the Beautiful, the god of joy and gladness, with a mistletoe-tipped arrow
p8ZmZ TIL of the "Infinite Cat Project", starting in 2003, people have been taking pictures of their cats looking at the previous cat, and so on, and so on...
X0kZr TIL astronomer Percival Lowell believed that he was the first person to observe canals on Venus, but it was later discovered that due to a faulty adjustment of the eyepiece of his telescope, he was actually mapping the blood vessels in his own eye
nex7r TIL Chris Brown is banned from entering Australia, the UK and New Zealand due to his criminal activity