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TIL 3 men escaped Alcatraz in a raft made of raincoats. The FBI never found them.

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QJlN6 TIL that, in 1964, a group of college students used garden spades to tunnel under the Berlin Wall into East Berlin, allowing 57 people to escape to the West. The students moved enough dirt to fill four eighteen-wheeler big rigs; one of them went on to design tunnels professionally.
vJyL TIL of the Yellow Fleet, 15 ships trapped in the Suez Canal for 8 years as a result of hostilities between Egypt and Israel. Over time they formed a micronation, a yacht club and staged the Bitter Lake Olympic Games.
X0X5E TIL that To play practical jokes on social media influencers, Payless created a fictitious luxury boutique named "Palessi".
jdeQ TIL that chopsticks actually replaced forks in China after they were developed, as opposed to the country having never developed them as many people think.
8exAZ TIL Kermit and Theodore Roosevelt Jr. (sons of 26th US President Teddy Roosevelt), became the first North Americans to shoot a panda, on an expedition funded by the (Chicago) Field Museum of Natural History in the 1920s.