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TIL that after fighting off a shark while rowing solo across the Atlantic, adventurer John Fairfax wasn’t believed—so he killed another shark and dropped it off at the reporter’s office to prove his story.

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Ajko TIL For the Apollo 11 moon landing conspiracy theory to be true, over 400,000 people would need to be part of the secret.
WkXQL TIL that 17th century pirate Laurens de Graaf married a woman after she threatened to shoot him for insulting her. She had challenged him to a duel to avenge her dead husband. When he drew his sword, she drew her gun. Laurens said he couldn’t fight a woman and proposed to her out of admiration.
jNZxn TIL that Ulysses S. Grant provided the defeated and starving Confederate Army with food rations after their surrender in April, 1865. Because of this, for the rest of his life, Robert E. Lee "would not tolerate an unkind word about Grant in his presence."
wLMK7 TIL The Arizona Cardinals football team is older than the state of Arizona
GwYQ TIL a British IT worker threw out an old hard drive containing a few thousand bitcoin he mined when they were a novelty, prompting searches for the $9 million buried in a Welsh landfill