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TIL while sailing from Tahiti to San Diego, Tami Oldham Ashford & her fiancé's boat temporarily capsized when they got caught in a hurricane. Tami got knocked out & woke up 27 hours later with her fiancé missing. Over the next 41 days, she used a sextant & a watch to navigate 1.5K miles to Hawaii.

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Brnwx TIL: Thanks to a 1665 idea of King Charles II (and to river-meandering), there's a cut-off 5-mile lobe of Kentucky that's not connected to any of Kentucky; it's all surrounded by other states (Missouri & Tennessee). Fewer than 20 people live in this "bubble" of KY ("Bubbleland" AKA "Kentucky Bend").
lK TIL that George Eastman, founder of Kodak, shot himself, leaving behind a note that said “To my friends: My work is done. Why wait?”
ApRg TIL A Polish immigrant, who didn’t speak English, was tasered to death by Canadian police. A memory card containing video of the incident was later taken away from a witness.
nWV4Y TIL a roller skating rink DJ named Chris Thrash bought a set of Showbiz Pizza's animatronic band called the Rock-afire Explosion, which had been popular in the 80s, and had new songs programmed and recorded for it and put on YouTube. He then opened up a Showbiz Pizza Zone restaurant with it in 2008.
Dp9p TIL Pimps wear expensive jewelry so that if they get arrested their girls can pawn it for bail.