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TIL about the Jumping Frenchmen of Maine, a cluster of lumberjacks who exhibited strange exaggerated startle responses and were highly suggestible

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l7Pd1 TIL that there are two shipwrecks that touch each other in Apra Harbor in Guam. The interesting part of this is that one wreck - German SMS Cormoran - was sunk in WW1, and the other - Japanese Tokai Maru - was sunk in WW2.
pLvA TIL Pentagon freaked out in the 1980s when they realized Finland had, against their expectations, managed to build two Mir submarines capable of diving to 6000 meters. They went on to shut down the whole Finnish submarine industry by privately threatening the country with heavy sanctions.
4X80R TIL Nero’s Golden Palace was rediscovered during the Renaissance, when a young man tripped, fell down a hole, and found himself in the cavernous, subterranean rooms of Nero’s palace.
wLPWE TIL Cilantro and Coriander come from the same plant. Cilantro is the leaves, and Coriander is the seeds.
OGM56 TIL that white holes are theorized to exist. Nothing can escape a black hole, and nothing can escape a white hole.