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TIL: The US Navy diving manual has detailed instructions for escaping a giant clam.

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Pwaw TIL that when ships pass through Point Nemo in the southern Pacific Ocean, the closest other humans are in the International Space Station 400km up.
yBap TIL the Polish Beer-Lovers’ Party (PPPP) won 16 seats in the Sejm with 2.97% of the vote in the first free parliamentary elections in 1991, before disintegrating into Large Beer and Small Beer factions despite party president Rewiński’s claims that “beer is neither light nor dark, it is tasty.”
gJJ7 TIL an empty tomb or monument erected in honor of a person whose remains are elsewhere is called a “Cenotaph.” For example, there are Cenotaphs all over the world for victims of the RMS Titanic, whose bodies were not recovered after the sinking.
5VA8B [TIL] Hitler insisted his image was on postage stamps to earn royalties.
Y7gar TIL that many countries require travelers to have passports with at least 6 months of remaining validity as an entry requirement.