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TIL of 15 year-old World War One Royal Navy officer Wenman Wykeham-Musgrave, having survived being torpedoed on three different ships within one hour, all of which sunk, swimming to each after abandonment of the last. Musgrave went on to survive the war and live a full life until 1989.

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nWybr TIL of the Japanese hell ship Arisan Maru. Torpedoed by an American submarine, all of the 1,781 POW’s onboard managed to escape the sinking ship. However, as they were not rescued by the Japanese, only 9 ultimately survived.
vox8 TIL Physicists were able to cool atomic gas below absolute zero at which point it displayed dark-energy like properties and seemingly defied gravity
M70LA TIL Walter Orthmann (Brazil) has been working at the same company for 84 years and 9 days, as verified on 6 January 2022.
BrO6W TIL A man had surgery in order to give himself a ten pound penis
xbv0 TIL Hell’s Angels prevented the WBC from picketing the funerals of Sandy Hook victims.