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TIL: Hells Angels attempted to Kill Mick Jagger in 1975. They tried to drive a boat up to the Long Island Mansion he was staying at, however, the boat sank and the Hells Angels ended up having to swim for their lives.

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j6GRj TIL of the 2022 Caribbean diving disaster where a group of five divers working for the Paria Fuel Trading Company were sucked into a pipeline from a hyperbaric chamber. One diver managed to crawl to safety, but the other four were left to die, with no attempt being made to rescue them
0wPgA TIL; Forest Bathing (shinrin-yoku) can improve your health and wellbeing
m6xR TIL that grocery cashiers in the US are seldomly given chairs to sit during work (unlike in Europe).
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