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TIL In 1962 the Canadian Navy accidentally shelled an American town with live rounds

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BgbLd TIL in 1983 Albert Rizzo set the WR for the longest time treading water at 108 hours. He performed the feat in the sea at Gżira in Malta, eating only liquid food. He extended his record to 132 hours in 1984 before the Guinness Book of Records stopped monitoring the record in 1986 due to its danger.
Z1pR TIL Caltech students snuck into two fairs at MIT for the prospective freshmen and handed out T-shirts that were packaged so that “MIT” was on the front, but on the back were the words “because not everybody can go to Caltech” were hidden until the package was opened
8Q5P TIL that in the DC Universe, Gotham City is located in New Jersey and Metropolis is in Deleware
YpGex TIL that a barred owl, shot in New England, was found to have a long-eared owl inside its stomach which in turn had an eastern screech-owl in its own stomach.
9Y4g6 TIL that Proxima Centauri released a flare visible from Earth, that scorched its “habitable” planet Proxima Centauri b, therefore eliminating any chance of habitability