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TIL the Ocean Ranger, then the world’s largest semi-submersible oil rig, sank off Newfoundland in 1982 with all 84 crew lost.

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yQmoJ TIL It is believed the first Japanese citizen to set foot in America was Oguri Jukichi, captain of a freighter that was sailing off the Japanese coast in 1813 when a storm blew it deep into the Pacific Ocean. Two years later, they were rescued off the coast of California and returned to Japan.
vPRaB TIL that coconut crabs and some other hermit crabs have Branchiostegal lungs (considered to be a developmental stage between gills and lungs) besides gills and will drown if submerged for too long. They also have the ability to smell things in the air.
VMw0 TIL Michael Phelps has more Olympic medals (22) than Lithuania (21).
OoR5g TIL that more than 95% of all stars which will ever exist have already been born. Star formation is now 30 times lower than at its peak 11 billion years ago.
Y7XZ TIL today 43 years ago today, the first ever computer-to-computer connection is completed