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TIL that the longest prison sentence ever served was 71 years

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oEZE TIL that a cave diver who let go of the underwater guideline and got lost whilst exploring the Sterkfontein Caves, a vast complex of passages and pools in South Africa, lived for three weeks in the pitch dark before dying of starvation.
x68KB TIL of the concept of the unmanned store, which is basically like a giant vending machine designed to reduce shoplifting, construction overhead, and disease.
5V5xD TIL that breast milk can adapt to a babies' illness and produce more milk with illness-specific antibodies.
JBe4 TIL that humans are the best long-distance runners on the planet, able to beat horses (and everything else) in marathon distance races.
kOYad TIL of Robert Smalls, a slave who freed himself his crew & their families by overtaking Confederate ship, CSS Planter, and sailing it north. The ship contained a code book letting them pass CSA checkpoints. He became new captain of the ship & convinced Lincoln to admit African Americans to the Army