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TIL about Charles Mayers a seaman who survived the Halifax explosion. The explosion hurled him several hundred metres in the air and he landed naked on a hill a mile away.

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MeJmK TIL Dennis Rodman was told he would not be welcomed in North Korea again 'until he cleaned up his act' after he got drunk, vomited and defecated all over a hotel in the country during the country leader's birthday celebrations. He checked into rehab after returning from North Korea to the U.S.
KlXJ TIL oil companies in Alberta’s tar sands use more water in a year than the entire city of Toronto, pay nothing for it, and don’t clean it up
0dPNA TIL: UN Secretary General Waldheim told the UN Security Council that the 1976 Entebbe raid that rescued 100+ hostages was "a serious violation of the sovereignty of a Member State of the United Nations"
RRrw TIL that there are 57 signals that Google looks at to personally tailor one’s query results and that there is no standard Google anymore.
vpy8 TIL the French, under Napoleon III, tried taking over Mexico to use it as a base to help the Confederate States win the Civil War. They failed and a year later Mexico celebrated “Cinco de Mayo” for the first time.