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TIL The World's deepest pool (60.02 meters) opened in Dubai with a warning to divers not to visit the Burj Khalifa after diving or they could develop decompression sickness, also known as 'the bends'.

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gZBA TIL The three highest-paid people in the Pentagon are football coaches
7rBOX TIL While under hypnosis, Betty Hill told of being shown a star map by one of her alien captors. Years later, she sketched what she remembered of the map and determined Zeta Reticuli was where the spacecraft originated from
VjaD TIL in a 1980s Nike commercial, a Kenyan tribesman’s words were translated as “Just Do It”; however, American anthropologist Lee Cronk alerted Nike that the Kenyan really said, “I don’t want these. Give me big shoes.” Nike responded back saying “We thought nobody in America would know what he said.”
7rEVr TIL: Feral Wallabies can be found in France, not far from Paris
ep49D TIL An Australian garment manufacturer was established in the 1940s which offered a lifelong guarantee on their woolen clothes, including free alterations if you put on weight or went on a diet.