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TIL despite likely occurring multiple times a day across all oceans, the definitive causes behind rogue waves largely remain a mystery

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GyD1 TIL a Croatian man, Frane Selak, escaped death several times throughout the mid-1900s, including (but not limited to) falling out of an airplane, being hit by a bus, and swerving off a road and over a cliff to avoid an auto accident. In 2003, he purchased his first lottery ticket, and won.
PvXE TIL that Niʻihau, the seventh largest Hawaiian Island, is privately owned by two brothers who inherited it, their great great grandmother bought it from the Kingdom of Hawai'i for $10,000 in gold in 1864.
ADw5x TIL I learned you can move youtube subtitles by dragging them.
Jod4 TIL there are more nuclear reactors powering ships (mostly military) than there are generating electric power in commercial power plants worldwide.
gMkmA TIL that singer Kirsty MacColl died a hero. While in Mexico, a speedboat was heading right at her and her son. She managed to push her 15 year old son out of the way just in time, but was runover in the process. She was killed instantly.