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TIL about the Body Worlds exhibit in London, where they preserve bodies via plastination so you can see muscles, veins and more

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rZBe TIL Sewol Ferry started sinking in South Korea in 2014, the captain told the passengers, mostly secondary school students, to not move and just stay put. 304 passengers and crew members died in the disaster
YPXG TIL that Typhoon Longwang was was the deadliest tropical cyclone to impact China during the 2005 Pacific typhoon season, also its name makes me laugh.
VBWP8 TIL about Operation Cottage. A joint US-Canada military operation in 1943 to take back an occupied Alaskan Island. Unfortunately, Canadians and Americans mistook each other for Japanese and open fired, killing 92 soldiers and wounding over 200 others.
k7Am TIL: That Adult Swim isn’t part of Cartoon Network, but two separate networks that share the channel space.
7rnmZ TIL In 1917, owners of the Phelps Dodge mining company kidnapped 1,300 striking mineworkers in Bisbee, Arizona, their supporters and bystanders, deported them via a 16 hour train ride across the desert with no food and little water and told them never to come back.