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TIL a father and his autistic son were stranded in the Atlantic ocean. They repeated “To infiniti and beyond” to keep track of each other for 15 hours before being rescued.

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rRvP0 TIL in 2000, Russian submarine Kursk experienced a torpedo system failure. The explosion caused the sub to hit the ocean floor. All 118 crew members eventually perished as a result of failed rescue missions. The president kept it quiet. Later a victims wife and mother were forcibly sedated.
Lkr5P TIL during a 1966 film version of Fahrenheit 451, the opening credits were read aloud with no text, since it's about a world without reading matter.
QNENd TIL There is a controversial theory that the Phoenicians discovered the Americas over 1000 years before Leif Erikson in 1st millennium BC
ep4bD TIL Alaska is not an island and is actually attached to the continental United States.
8anMK TIL of Aardman Animations, a British animation studio based in Bristol. They are known for films using plasticine and clay animations, their most famous characters being Wallace and Gromit. They also did the animation for Peter Gabriel's "Sledgehammer" music video