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TIL of Zachary Porter, 20, who got stuck, waste deep, in a mud flat during low tide. He was unable to free himself and drowned when the high tide came in.

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jN9aj TIL that in 2008 a fire at Universal Studios destroyed up to 500,000 original masters most of which weren't backed up and is the biggest disaster in music history
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KYbdR TIL that Jason Statham competed for England in the 1990 Commonwealth Games in diving.
pjpb TIL of the steamship Eastland, which, in 1915, capsized while still tied to the dock in Chicago. New safety laws which rushed through Congress after the Titanic sinking mandated so much safety gear installed that the ship was top heavy and rolled over, killing 844 people.
GQx4 TIL: Albert Einstein solved the Tea Leaf paradox where tea leaves in a cup of tea migrate to the center and bottom of the cup after being stirred rather than being forced to the edges of the cup