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TIL that people have died from digging holes too deep in sand.

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yx0v TIL that an engineer at NASA spent fifteen years trying to become an astronaut, being rejected fourteen times before finally being selected in 1998.
0NnA TIL That each submarine in the British Royal Navy contains in it a letter only meant to be opened in the event of a nuclear strike on English soil and what to do in said event.
VvbG TIL There was once a contractor named Hoosier employed on the Louisville and Portland Canal who preferred to hire laborers from Indiana. They were called “Hoosier’s men” and eventually all Indianans were called Hoosiers.
BrXy TIL Wayne’s World was responsible for starting the phrase “that’s what she said” and the “not” joke
P1pGE TIL there was a species of marsupial lions in Australia. The now extinct Thylacoleo ("pouch lion")