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TIL, in 2013, an expedition to recover bodies from a tugboat sunk at 30 meter depth, found one survivor trapped in an air bubble, in pitch black, after 3 days

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1aEd TIL In 1945 Frank Sinatra cancelled a $10,000 gig and traveled to Gary, Indiana to convince white high school students striking against integration to return to school. Sinatra called it “the most shameful incident in the history of American education.”
d8MWK TIL as a child Shelly Duvall would be taunted by other kids calling her Olive Oyl. As an adult Robert Altman casted her as Olive Oyl in 'Popeye' telling her this was the part she was born to play.
LQVvm TIL about the Gardner museum heist, the biggest art theft in history, still unsolved and with a $10 million dollar reward for information leading to arrests and recovery of the stolen art.
9Y5D6 TIL Jimmy Carter called Egyptian president Sadat’s assassination in 1981 “one of the worst days of my life.” Carter knew Sadat's successsor, Mubarak, quite well. Decades later, Carter became disappointed and stopped speaking to Mubarak because he "talks like a politician"
KYdd6 TIL Margaret of Provence, queen consort of France, was the only woman to ever lead a crusade, when her husband was captured and she was in charge of his army and the negotiations to rescue him.