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TIL That the Sea of Japan has almost no perceptible tides.

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e1aE TIL in March 6, 2010 a blind hiker set on the Appalachian trail with a goal to inspire other visually impaired people. Seven months later, he finished hiking the 1,700 miles using only a cellphone, GPS open-source software, and hearing to locate camps, trailheads, and water sites.
QNV1d TIL about Operation Nimrod, where the British SAS conducted a daring raid on the Iranian Embassy in London to rescue hostages. Six armed revolutionaries stormed the embassy and took 26 people hostage, resulting in a 6 day siege. 19 hostages were rescued and the raid was broadcasted live.
oGGr TIL that Mike Lindell, the inventor of “My Pillow” had a crack addiction so bad that his dealers gave him an intervention.
y9g8 TIL that public universities in the U.S. spent more than $10.3 billion in mandatory student fees and other subsidies on their sports programs from 2010 through 2014.
ADZ9a TIL Physicists at Washington State University created 'negative mass' where unlike every known physical object in the world, it doesn't accelerate in the direction it was pushed. It accelerates backwards.