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TIL there is a garbage swirl in the ocean the size of Texas.

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ro5e TIL that former general David Petraeus was accidentally shot in the chest with an M-16 rifle. The hospital released him early after he did fifty push-ups without resting, just a few days after the accident.
5VWNP TIL despite their rivalry, Tesla & Edison worked together. In 1884 they clashed over direct current (DC) vs. alternating current (AC). Edison promoted DC, while Tesla AC, which became the standard. Edison offered Tesla $50,000 to improve his DC generators but reneged on the deal.
PYGYV TIL During WW2 Ireland put up over eighty signs of the word Eire (Ireland in the Irish language) around its coast to warn bombers they were flying over a neutral country.
BgZ7b TIL the Tres Hombres is the only trans-Atlantic sailing freighter without a motor which is based in the Netherlands
neROb TIL the original ending to Pinocchio was intended to be a warning, with the young puppet boy's companions executing him by hanging him from a tree for his crimes.