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

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dGR9 TIL The reason PINs are typically four digits is that the inventor’s wife could only remember four digits. Had she not mentioned this they would be six digits.
awaxM TIL a man built the world's largest treehouse after claiming God told him to do so. It was 97 feet tall. It took 12 years to build and burned down in 15 minutes in 2019.
BrxEL TIL that a Jewish prisoner escaped from Auschwitz in 1944 disguised as an SS guard
xXd1 TIL that when Pixar started to work on Toy Story 3, all the animators agreed to shave their hair, and to have a competition to see who could last the longest without cutting it.
vPZbL TIL there's an Underground river beneath the Amazon River, it was discovered in 2011 and its about as long as the Amazon river, but it is much broader. It's unofficial name is the Rio Hamza