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TIL of "Belle Chase John Doe", an unidentified 17-year-old suicide victim whose note requested that the police make no attempt to identify him. All records and information on the case was lost during a hurricane.

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NXdN6 TIL about Chris Lemons, a saturation diver that survived 35 minutes without oxygen at almost 300 feet below the North Sea.
4EZJ TIL in 1982 a Bolivian Drug smuggler’s son was busted in the US. The drug lord sent a letter to Ronald Reagan, proposing that in exchange for his son’s liberty he would pay off Bolivia’s entire foreign debt ($3.8 billion).
XE5MR TIL Singer Lily Allen declined a role on “Game of Thrones” due to the character getting involved in incest... with a character played by her real-life brother.
90dM TIL that Germany aims to abandon fossil fuels by 2050 and generate 100% of its electricity from renewable energy sources.
QNdxE TIL that there’s a planet mostly made from diamond. The alien planet, a so-called "super-Earth," is called 55 Cancri e and was discovered in 2004 around a nearby star in our Milky Way galaxy.