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TIL The seafloor sonar data obtained during the underwater search for Flight 370 gave scientists an unusually-large section of deep-ocean seafloor mapped at high resolution; Data revealed numerous subsea volcanoes and evidence of large submarine landslides

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gJ8A TIL that Tsutomo Yamaguchi (the man who survived both atom bombs) traveled 180 miles home to return to work despite his intense injuries from the first bomb. When he arrived at work his boss didn’t believe that one bomb destroyed all of Hiroshima. Then the second bomb dropped on Nagasaki.
4Xre5 TIL that blink-182 was forced by the American Red Cross to remove a red cross from the artwork for their album "Enema of the State" as it was a violation of the international Geneva Conventions.
nWW7b Til that: " The "Lord of Misrule" was a medieval peasant appointed to preside over dunkenness, bad behavior, and wild partying during festivals.
kOapm TIL Ancient weapons pre-dating the Clovis culture have been discovered in Texas - Spear points that pre-date the Clovis culture by up to 2,500 years have been discovered at the Buttermilk Creek archaeological site in Texas.
KDxJ TIL that there is a hanging display in Chicago of 58,226 dog tags of every American soldier killed in Vietnam.