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TIL that in 1985 the New Orleans lifeguards threw a party celebrating having gone an entire season without a single drowning. During the party a man drowned in the back pool while four lifeguards were on duty.

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vPVdL TIL Two months after Oasis's 'Wonderwall' was released, a band called The Mike Flowers Pops released a easy-listening version which was jokingly promoted as "the original version of Wonderwall". Noel Gallagher was later asked by his record label if he had actually written the song.
wLWko TIL about Yun Sim-deok, known as Korea's first soprano. Her song "Hymn of Death" became Korea's first pop song; selling 100,000 copies after her death in 1926. Yun had been having an affair with the married writer Kim Woo-jin and the pair committed suicide together by jumping off a passenger ship.
yVoxe TIL: California geothermal energy plant, The Geysers, uses treated wastewater to recharge their reservoir
REv1 TIL of internet porn pioneer Danni Ashe who, due to her success in the early days of the internet, is the only woman who was on the cover of the Wall Street Journal and Juggs magazine
6ELoZ TIL the famous "Aaron Burr" Got Milk? ad of the early 90s was directed by a then unknown Michael Bay.