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TIL of Richard Marcus. A retired casino scammer that earned over 12.000.000$ with a simple roulette trick and never got arrested for it.

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JYpnv TIL during the vajont disaster, a megatsunami created by a massive landslide that killed about 2000 people, was so strong, the wall of water pushed an air pocket more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb, so strong that people's clothes were blown off by the blast before the wave came
7r4yX TIL Beaufort's Dyke is a deep sea trench off the coast of Northern Ireland that the British have used to dump thousands of tonnes of munitions and nuclear waste. There are explosions happening down there that register on seismographs.
RpEj TIL that the US nuclear arsenal is the property of the civilian Department of Energy, not the military Department of Defense
7rQ7L TIL The first scientist who observed necrophilia in penguins was so disturbed that he tried to obscure his findings
R5Nr7 TIL that Lucille Ball convinced Merv Griffin to hire Alex Trebek to host the revival of Jeopardy in 1984 when original host Art Fleming, a friend of Trebek’s, declined to return. Trebek holds the Guinness World Records for most episodes of a game show hosted, hosted the show until his death in 2020.