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TIL of the Vela Incident, A nuclear explosion in the Indian ocean of unknown origin. The most widespread theory is that it was a joint Apartheid South African-Israeli nuclear test.

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AZQl TIL that when your kitty brings you home a dead animal, it think you are an incompetent hunter and is trying to show you the ropes
N7kpM TIL Chuck Norris has his own martial arts system, called Chun Kuk Do, which is based on his training in the military while in Korea.
ADANg TIL that in 1483 sir Henry Wyatt, an English knight, was imprisoned and left with no food. He would have starved to death, if it had not been for a cat he made friends with. That cat brought him pigeons to eat every day, and so he survived for two years before he was freed by his companions in 1485.
oB48R TIL in 2013 Harrison Okene, a cook aboard a Nigerian tugboat, was the only survivor of a crew of 12 when the boat sank. Trapped 100 feet below the surface, he survived for 72 hours in an air pocket before being rescued by Dutch divers from a nearby oil rig who had been sent in to recover the bodies.
K05a TIL that Cartman’s mom, Liane, is named after Trey Parker’s cheating ex-fiancee, thus the jokes about her promiscuity.