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TIL in 1832, a US ship was captured by pirate Pedro Gilbert. After, he had part of filled with explosives, before setting it on fire with the crew trapped inside. However, they escaped and doused the flames, letting smoke billow out until the pirates had left. 6 weeks later, they returned to port.

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YpykA TIL: The World Wingsuit League held the first and second World Wingsuit Championships in Tianmen. On October 8, 2013, during a training jump for the second world championships, Viktor Kováts plunged to his death when he was unable to open his parachute.
OoMmX TIL an Australian fast-food chain called Chicken Treat let a chicken named Betty write out it's tweets by pecking at a keyboard. Apparently, if Betty did manage to hit 5 keys in a row to form a word, she'd get into the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's first chicken to tweet in English.
Mexb0 TIL of the Frog Boys, a group of South Korean children who went missing while frog hunting. 11 years later their bodies had been discovered, with police concluding that they died from hypothermia. However, a later autopsy revealed them to have been murdered, one with a shotgun blast to the head.
pY1dN TIL that on August 23, 1968 a pig named Pigasus was nominated for President of the United States by the Youth International Party (the Yippies) during the protests leading up to and during the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, IL.
nvxo TIL the US and Australia are geographically almost the same size