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TIL days after Hurricane Katrina, an 20year old man with extensive criminal history named Jabbar Gibson stole a school bus and picked up around 70 stranded people and drove 13 hours from NO to Houston. The first bus to arrive at the Astrodome.

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wLwaM TIL that hippo sweat has a reddish-orange coloration that acts as a natural sunblock. The sticky substance also helps regulate the hippo’s body temperature and discourages bacterial infection.
pYPpp TIL in 1937 Jewish Paul Lamfrom owned the largest shirt company in Germany. It was seized by the Nazis and he fled to Portland, Oregon and started a hat company named after the local river, that company became Columbia Sportswear.
rNXD4 TIL that the WWII submarine USS Tang sank two Japanese freighters in 1944 and was then sunk by one of her own torpedoes. Of the 78-man crew, nine survived and were rescued by the same Japanese frigate that had rescued sailors from the freighters the Tang had sunk the night before.
E1ADx TIL despite knitting being thought of as a female-dominated hobby, from as early as the 14th century, Knitting guilds were established that were exclusively for men.
E1rO0 TIL the Korean word for “Swiss army knife” is “maekgaibeo kal” which literally means “McGyver knife”