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TIL a Japanese man Yasuo Takamatsu lost his wife in the 2011 earthquake and has not stopped looking for her body for more than 10 years and has dived more than 800 times in the ocean to retrieve her.

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KOeKa TIL that in 1874, the NY Herald published an article about a mass escape of wild animals from the zoo, concluding with "the story given above is a pure fabrication". Most readers overlooked the final paragraph, and it sparked a mass panic, with the NY Times editor leaving his house with two pistols
D4Xj TIL Weird Al Yankovic was the valedictorian of his high school
WkDBd TIL The original Duck Tales Theme was kept and translated for almost every international version of the show. The only outlier was South Korea's season one theme.
PYomw TIL Elijah Wood, Sean Bean, and Orlando Bloom were flying out of Newark airport on September 11, 2001 and saw the world trade center in flames from the air.
7rAbb TIL that Julia Tuttle was the only woman to found a major American city, having owned and developed the land that would eventually become Miami.