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TIL of Mario Salcedo who, with a few exceptions, has been living permanently on Royal Carribbean cruise ships for over 20 years

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b9pV9 TIL of Joseph Trombino, Brinks truck driver, who narrowly survived an armed robbery in 1983 and the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, only to be killed in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001
4k9k5 TIL there's a metal band with a parrot as their vocalist.
e0BPD TIL the Jal Mahal (literally "water palace") is a palace in the middle of a lake in India, and 4 of its stories are under the lake.
Oo5PL TIL that Tuvalu gets 10% of its GDP from leasing its .tv Top Level Domain. This allowed it to able to enter the UN because it could finally afford the $100,000 entrance fee.
ADgBg TIL that spoken Hebrew virtually went extinct as a spoken language in the 2nd century CE, but was revived in the 19th and 20th century. It is the only revived language in the world and is now spoken by millions as their native language.