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TIL An orchid hunter & companion were taken hostage by guerrillas in Colombia. After 9 months of being held, they were told they’d be killed, so on his final day he designed a dream garden. But he was released, got home & built the garden, & won awards for it

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lr65 [TIL] The Sun is so loud that if space was filled with air it would be 125db on Earth, 92 Million miles away
WkDn8 TIL of Lloyd Scott, a former footballer who, in 2002, completed the London Marathon while wearing a 130lb (59kg) deep sea diving suit. Finishing the entire race took him five days, eight hours, 29 minutes and 46 seconds.
6dQm TIL that a New Zealand rugby player was involved in a ruck that resulted in his scrotum being severed and his testicle hanging loose. He asked the team doctor to stitch his scrotum and continued playing the game until he was taken out after sustaining a subsequent, unrelated concussion.
BGYL TIL: Green olives and black olives are not different species. The distinction reflects whether they were picked before or after ripening.
a5ao TIL that the US helped France improve its nuclear weapons. Since US law prevents sharing atomic-bomb information, France and the US used a method called “negative guidance” or “Twenty Questions”; French scientists described to Americans their research, and were told whether they were correct.