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TIL last year the Star Princess, a Princess cruises ship passed by 3 men drifting in a small boat with no motor in the open sea. The captain confirmed he saw the men through his telescope and then did nothing to help. The boat was later found by the Ecuadorean coast guard with only one survivor.

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8aoBP TIL that while working in Naval Intelligence during WW2 Ian Fleming, creator of James Bond, worked on a plan to steal an enigma machine by having British officers dress up as crashed Luftwaffe crew. The plan had the approval of Alan Turing and became the inspiration for Operation Mincemeat.
awaL TIL that a new study released by United States auto insurance quote provider 4AutoInsuranceQuote.org shows that statistically speaking, marijuana users are safer drivers than non-marijuana users.
awl8M TIL of John Ruffo, a fugitive who in 1998 was convicted of a scheme to defraud US and foreign banking institutions of 350 million dollars. He was last sighted in 2001, visiting community banks trying to open an account so he could receive $250 million of wire transfers from Nigeria.
4X966 TIL Ice-T’s album "Rhyme Pays" was the first rap album to carry a Parental Advisory label, three years before the RIAA started putting the Parental Advisory sticker on albums.
1aeVW TIL that the poem to remember the days of the month "Thirty days has September", taught to children to this day, is actually at least a 600-year-old poem, with the earliest known published forms written in Old English and Latin, from 1425 and 1488, respectively.