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TIL, In 1985, a New Orleans man drowned at a pool party attended by over a 100 lifeguards celebrating a summer with no drownings. After the party, 4 lifeguards who were cleaning found the fully clothed body of 31-year-old Jerome Moody at the bottom of the pool’s deep end.

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o0MY TIL that in the 19th century China came extremely close to being ruled by the leader of a Christian cult who believed he was the younger brother of Jesus Christ. It took the deadliest civil war in history with 30 million dead to defeat him.
LveQ TIL that in 1946, the UK created a secret torture program targeting communists, many of whom survived Nazi concentration camps.
XERO6 TIL running a leafblower for 30 minutes is worse than driving a pickup truck 3800 miles
wQ6P TIL there have been no beehive losses in Cuba. Unable to import pesticides due to the embargo, the island now exports valuable organic honey.
0wX7L TIL of the “next-in-line” effect—a phenomenon that causes people to regularly forget the names of the people they meet for the first time because they’re too focused on worrying about what they’ll say next to that person.