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TIL The Great Salt Lake was once almost the size of Lake Michigan

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E55w TIL after a hijacked Ethiopian Air jet crashed in the ocean, an estimated 60-80 people who survived the initial water-crash ignored the captains pleas to not inflate the life vests inside the plane. They all drowned when rushing water pinned their inflated vests against the fuselage’s ceiling.
7MBr TIL the Danish government recreated the entire country of Denmark in Minecraft at a 1:1 scale, made of 4000 billion bricks. Players, exploiting a loophole, blew it up and planted an American flag.
4Wlo TIL of Nancy Wake, a secret agent who served Britain during WW2 and who became the Gestapo’s most wanted person. Her exploits included judo-chopping a man to death, and cycling 310 miles undetected through German territory and checkpoints to replace codes which had been destroyed in a raid.
VMZZk TIL The infamous Shirts against the Blouses basketball game in Chappelle’s Show actually happened and Prince was as good as Charlie Murphy says he was. Prince also had blueberry pancakes served after the game.
9Yrjr TIL platypuses, gila monsters, and cone snails use insulin as venom (and are being studied as sources of diabetes treatments)