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TIL that Oceanographer Bob Ballard found the Titanic just days after completing a secret mission for the Navy. The secret mission’s cover-story: finding the Titanic.

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6EK0Z TIL in 2006 when the Japanese government announced that ear cleaning would no longer be considered a medical procedure, thus making medical licenses unnecessary for ear cleaners, a new type of business sprung up in Tokyo and other big cities: ear-cleaning parlors, which now number in the hundreds.
Dkjp TIL If a human dies in outer space their body won’t decompose due to no present oxygen (a key component to decomposition). A corpse could drift in space looking fresh & new for millions of years.
1aM4 TIL The Apollo Astronauts, unable to qualify for life insurance and not insured by NASA, resorted to ‘insurance autographs’, signing just before launch in the expectation that the value would skyrocket in the event of their deaths
0wA41 TIL: In 2007 a thief drove a $280,000 Porsche through the glass window of a Malaysian luxury car showroom. The car was abandoned nearby, its fuel tank empty. The thief kept the keys and returned with a can of gas to the police station where the car was impounded, stealing the vehicle a second time.
0KDp TIL that former FBI director, J. Edgar Hoover, liked to write on the margin of memos. One time, he read a memo w/ narrow margins, and replied “Watch the borders!” The next week was met w/ mass confusion, as multiple inquiries were sent to Border Patrol inquiring about any suspicious border activity.