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TIL 3 sailors were trapped in the wreckage at Pearl Harbor for 16 days before they suffocated. Bystanders could hear them but were unable to help them.

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XwZQ TIL that the Soviet Union attempted to domesticate moose for use in a cavalry.
l75JK TIL that a museum in a tiny Western Canadian town has one of only 17 remaining Avro Lancaster aircraft in the world, and its Lancaster is one of only 4 in the world which can taxi under its own power
9YKOm TIL: The TV show "Big Brother" had a policy of keeping the contestants in total information isolation. This included not informing the cast about 9/11. They had to change the policy after one of the cast's family members was lost at Ground Zero.
dDwd8 TIL About Hart Island. Located in Long Island Sound the island has seen many uses including as a POW camp, as an anti-aircraft missile battery site and a drug rehab facility. However it's primary fame is as NYC's Potter's Field with an estimated one million burials having taken place there.
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