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TIL that there have been multiple people adrift at sea who have lived over a year with no supplies other than what the ocean had to offer. Through their own ingenuity and perseverance they survived.

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6OpZ TIL 53 percent of the people who live in Fiji don’t have access to clean, safe water yet Fiji water is the nation’s largest export
D16Gr TIL on 25th January 1996 Billy Bailey was executed by hanging. He is only the third person to be executed in the US by hanging since 1965. The gallows used were dismantled in 2003 as Delaware stopped allowing death row inmates this option of execution
x6adg TIL that Shonda Rhimes accidentally invented the term 'vajayjay' on Grey’s Anatomy to get around limits on network TV as to how often characters could use the word “vagina.”
mMYp TIL The clothing company ‘The North Face’ once sued another clothing company 'The South Butt’
Rxm7 TIL There is a single hacker who has taken down over 170 Jihadi websites as well as Wikileaks, Lizard Squad, and Westboro Baptist Church.