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TIL that the person clinking glasses together in the Beatles song Yellow Submarine was Rolling Stones founder Brian Jones

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d80v7 TIL About the Lykov family, who isolated themselves in the Russian Taiga to escape religious persecution. They lived in total isolation for 40 years and were unaware that WWII had even happened. One daughter still lives there — at 74 years old.
5Zpr TIL an octopus called Inky escaped from his tank at a New Zealand aquarium by finding a weak spot in the glass, dragging himself along the floor and escaping through a pipe that led to the ocean
oBVm8 TIL Tom and Jerry producer Fred Quimby, though not involved in the creative process, took all credit for the cartoon's success. Each time the cartoon won the Academy Award for Animated Short Film, he accepted the awards without inviting the animators, William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, onstage.
xl5D TIL in 1989, the forward cargo door of a 747 flying from Honolulu to Auckland blew off, causing decompression of the cabin and ejecting 9 passengers from the plane to their deaths over 22,000ft below. 2 flight attendants narrowly avoided being sucked out of the plane.
wLAPP TIL domestic pigs will quickly adapt to living in the wild if set free. They become extremely aggressive, and their physiology will change and resemble that of feral swine (bristly hair, tusks, increased muscle mass) within a matter of months.