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TIL in 1996 a hippo attacked two river tour guides, drowning one and severely injuring the other. The surviving tour guide was swallowed up to his waist twice during the attack. He suffered a "gaping hole" in his back & his left arm was amputated after it was "crushed to a pulp" from the elbow down.

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d8d07 TIL Living up to 5 months, Labord's chameleons are the shortest-lived land vertebrate in the world and are only found in Madagascar. Hatching at the start of the wet season, they rapidly develop into adulthood, feeding, mating, females lay eggs, then all adults die off as the dry weather returns.
R5xwj TIL The ship "Conception" burned down and killed 33 scuba divers and one crewman in 2019, the captain of the ship, Jerry Boylan, jumped off the ship before anyone else. Four crewmen and the captain survived.
GAEAG TIL in 2022, during a deep sea expedition, a beer bottle was found, fully intact, at the 'challenger deep' of mariana trench which is the deepest point in the ocean
b6YRa TIL Toronto Blue Jays have an entire FB group dedicated to “Home Plate Lady” & trying to figure out her identity
XEYxQ TIL during a visit to India, then PM of Pakistan Nawaz Sharif mentioned Raveena Tandon was his favorite actress. During the 1999 Kargil War, Indian soldiers wrote "From Raveena Tandon to Nawaz Shareef" on a bomb before dropping it over a Pakistani location.