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TIL there was a British plan during WWIl to seal up soldiers in a hidden Gibraltar bunker so they could observe German military movements even if Gibraltar was captured.

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4WwX TIL Gawker once published a video of a drunk college girl having sex in a bathroom stall at a sports bar. The woman begged them to remove it. The editor responded, “Best advice I can give you right now: do not make a big deal out of this”
OaKg TIL there was a 20 meter shark that preyed regularly on whales and other large prey. They were such efficient killers that they ran out of food and had to resort to cannibalism, effectively eating themselves into extinction.
E1JNX TIL that when a dead whale washed up on an Oregon beach, they decided the best way to dispose of the body was to detonate it, unintentionally covering the townspeople in whale blood.
VB110 TIL In 1987, an 18-month-old baby named Jessica McClure fell into an abandoned well in Texas and was trapped for 58 hours. The rescue operation involved drilling a parallel shaft and then tunneling through to reach her, and it was captured on live television.
dDN79 TIL that the infamous Pac-Man kill screen is caused by an overflow error causing the game to try and draw 256 pieces of fruit. However, the code then starts drawing random garbled pieces of memory, causing half the screen to get covered in random graphics that the game interprets as fruit.