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TIL Norwegian police banned a team of Finnish divers from a cave in 2014 after 2 people died. In secret, the divers pulled their 2 dead friends to the surface & fulfilled a promise to a widow of one man. The illegal rescue took 27 divers & 101 hrs in frigid water, using about 1-ton of equip.

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jPPM TIL: The most poisonous animal in America is the rough-skinned newt, whose skin contains a poison 10,000 times deadlier than cyanide. They are far more toxic than any other land animal because their predator, the garter snake has become increasingly immune to the toxin as it has become more potent.
yQLAX TIL that Jeremy Renner broke both his arms during filming of the movie "Tag". CGI was used to replace Renner's arm casts in the final film.
r7Ad TIL The highest peak east of the Mississippi,Mount Mitchell was named after Elisha Mitchell, who, when verifying his measurements of the mountain, fell to his death at one of the falls on the mountain…Which they ended up naming “Mitchell Falls”.
NXVbb TIL that the Brazilian village of Candido Godoi, 7k inhabitants mostly of German descent, have the greatest birth rate of twins in the world (1/5 births). Some believe it is the result of genetic experiments of nazi medic Mengele, notorious for his obsession with creating an Aryan race.
vjkr TIL The two “M’s” in M&Ms represent the names of Forrest E. Mars Sr. (son of candy company Mars, Inc. founder Frank C. Mars) and Bruce Murrie (son of Hershey’s Chocolate president William F. R. Murrie).