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OoxY1 TIL in 2012 an employee at a Bumble Bee Tuna factory was killed when he was cooked in an oven with 12,000lbs of tuna.
9YAg6 TIL that a Polish environmental charity put a SIM card in a GPS tracker to follow the migratory pattern of a white stork. They lost track of the stork and later received a phone bill for $2,700; someone in Sudan had taken the SIM from the tracker and made over 20 hours of calls.
ADBm7 TIL: With India on lockdown, endangered sea turtles are on course to lay 60,000,000 eggs this year. Over 475,000 Olive Ridley sea turtles came ashore, along the coast of the eastern state of Odisha, to dig their nests and lay eggs
QWK9 TIL in WWII a woman-only Soviet bomber regiment were nicknamed the “Night Witches” by German soldiers. For a successful bombing run, the Witches would cut the engine of their archaic and noisy aircraft. Gliding in, they would release their bombs before the enemy even knew they were there.
5bPp TIL The people of Shitterton, UK, banded together to buy a big rock to put the name on. As people kept stealing the sign.