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TIL out of the 92 Navy SEALS that died since 2002, 21 were killed during training (many by parachute accidents)

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0gOv TIL that the current heir to the former Ottoman Empire, Bayezid Osman, is a US citizen, WWII Veteran, and lives in New York City where he worked as a librarian before retiring. He is 89.
1aPWX TIL brainfuck is an esoteric programming language whose compiler uses only 240 bytes of memory making it around 11,000 times smaller than the C++ compiler.
R5l1a TIL the founder of the Mayo Clinic taught osteology using the skeleton of an executed Dakota chief that had been stolen from his grave. The remains were not returned until the 1990s
5Xv8 TIL people of the Mongol empire NEVER washed their clothes or themselves because they believed washing would pollute the water and anger the dragons that controlled the water cycle.
6Ejaw TIL Alcatraz's prison guards created the myths about man eating sharks and deadly waters of San Francisco to discourage prisoners from escaping. There is only one recorded shark fatality in San Francisco in 1959