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TIL In 1897, three men tried to reach the North Pole in a hydrogen-filled balloon. The balloon crashed two days after lift-off and the men spent the next 3 months trying to walk back to civilization…only to be eaten by polar bears.

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6EY8X TIL the design of the original WTC complex was inspired by arabic architecture
Z80DR TIL in 1995 an inmate filed a US$5 million lawsuit against himself. He claimed that he violated his own civil rights by getting arrested. He then asked the state to pay because he had no income in jail.
yvRX TIL that North Korea is following 3 accounts on Twitter. Two are propaganda and the other is a 25 year old American from Texas. Nobody knows why.
KO6pQ TIL Jackie Kennedy wore her blood-splattered pink Chanel suit for the rest of the day after JFK’s assassination. When asked to change her outfit, she replied “I want them to see what they have done to Jack.”
0dJj TIL A man in Mexico hung thousands of dolls and doll parts from trees to please the spirit of a girl he found dead on an island known as the “Island of the Dolls”