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TIL that the longest overdue book was late by 288 years

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0dWQM TIL Old typewriters have no exclamation point! They typed an apostrophe ' over a period .
lZxN TIL the Yapese use large stone “coins” for money which can weigh up to 8,800 lbs. Rather than move them, they usually just keep track of who the owner is. When one was lost at sea, people continued to “trade” it even though it was never recovered, since they all agreed it must still exist.
j6GRj TIL of the 2022 Caribbean diving disaster where a group of five divers working for the Paria Fuel Trading Company were sucked into a pipeline from a hyperbaric chamber. One diver managed to crawl to safety, but the other four were left to die, with no attempt being made to rescue them
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WXlA TIL that in the 1980s the Naval Investigative Service undertook a massive and futile search for a woman named “Dorothy” in the Chicago area, after hearing gay men refer to themselves as “friends of Dorothy”. They believed she was at the center of a ring of gay military personnel.