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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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loEO7 TIL The surviving heir to China's imperial dynasty worked in Beijing, had no regrets, and thought his own simple life immeasurably superior to those of his ancestors. "I don't envy them at all. My guess is that even if they lived in palaces, they must have spent every waking moment worrying."
GAL77 TIL of Two-Gun Cohen, a British/Canadian adventurer who was a friend of Sun Yat-sen, helped China get weapons when Japan invaded in 1937, did work for the British in WW2, and when he died in 1970, his funeral was attended by both factions of the Chinese government.
W7wkd TIL about Miki Matsubara, a Japanese composer, lyricist, and singer who destroyed all her sheet music and albums when she was diagnosed with cervical cancer in 2000. She told those around her, "Please live your life without regrets."
5egP TIL that the great-grandfather of Russian author Alexander Pushkin, was black. An African slave bought for Peter the Great, he became a major-general, military engineer, governor of Reval and a nobleman
9wKZQ TIL that John Cena is the only musical artist to have their debut album be certified Platinum, and then never release another album again.