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TIL before 9/11, New York's deadliest disaster was an excursion steamboat sinking in 1904 with 1,021 deaths and 431 survivors (most could not swim at the time).

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rNaXx TIL of the COMEX Hydra VIII experiment, where a team of professional divers dived to a depth of 536 m/1,752 ft while breathing Hydreliox, breathing gas consisting of 49% hydrogen, 50.2% helium and 0.8% oxygen
69BRW TIL that there are around 10^10^23.1 different 0 and 1 combinations in the entire internet as of 2020, a number with more than 100,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 digits.
gM97W TIL that an air traffic controller Peter Nielsen, who was involved in a mid-air collision resulting in 71 deaths, was tracked down and killed by Vitaly Kaloyev whose wife and children died in the crash and that Vitaly was praised as a hero when he was released and returned home
4kvp6 TIL: The female vocals on the Rolling Stones' iconic "Gimme Shelter" were performed by a 4-months-pregnant Merry Clayton wearing pajamas and curlers in her hair because of the late hour at which she was unexpectedly brought into the recording studio.
a8W7Z TIL Richard Branson makes an appearance in the Bond film Casino Royale