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TIL the Skeleton Coast in Namibia is the world’s largest ship cemetery

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L9wd TIL about Albert Gunton, a London city bus driver who in 1952 found himself driving his route crossing Tower Bridge when the bridge began to rise to allow a ship to pass. He accelerated and jumped the gap, and was awarded £10 for bravery.
l9OG TIL that in 1889 a dam owned by an exclusive hunting and fishing club gave way, causing a flood that killed 2,209 people in southern Pennsylvania. The club’s members included many of the richest men in America and efforts to hold it legally responsible went nowhere
OGn4L TIL Yorkshire has a little burbling creek that is actually a deadly waterway that has dragged down everyone who ever set foot in it
QJwXX TIL that LFMAO is a uncle-nephew duo. The two are separated by 11 years in age and they are son and grandson of Motown Records founder Berry Gordy
m1Xxp TIL that "Machine Gun" Molly Bolin set the U.S. women's pro basketball single game scoring record despite dislocating her shoulder early in the game