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W7NXd TIL An oil drilling operation at Lake Peigneur, Louisiana accidentally punctured a salt dome, creating a sinkhole that swallowed barges and caused the Delcambre Canal to flow backwards.
OogaR TIL Craig Sager cut his son off from his will and left him with all the medical bills after his son spent 9 days at a hospital to donate stem cells for his father’s cancer treatment
9YnLB TIL that Lord of the Rings author J. R. R. Tolkien formed a secret society with his friends that idolized tea-drinking
wo5X6 TIL of "the Bat man", a married woman's lover kept in her attic for 10 years.
OGo5X TIL there is a species of bird that has only been found once. A Red Sea Cliff Swallow was found in Sudan in 1984, and a second bird of this species has never been found. There is not enough conclusive evidence to say it matches any other species of swallow, so it is still listed as its own species.