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TIL that in 1966, the US lost a hydrogen bomb in the Mediterranean Sea, and struggled to find it. Finally, a Spanish fisherman helped them find it, and asked for the $20 million finder’s reward that the US owed according to law.

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7rrXO I mean, it's not just me, right?
BWOy TIL in 1985 a New Orleans man drowned at pool party attended by 100 lifeguards celebrating a summer with no drownings!
x6VwD TIL despite sharing more than 200 miles of border with Wisconsin and only sharing a bridge with Michigan, the Upper Peninsula is part of Michigan (not Wisconsin) because of a fight with Ohio
m1VVR TIL The ~1mm large animal known as Trichoplax can regenerate from just a handfull of cells and if its chopped up, the individual pieces will try to find each other and join back together.
b049 TIL that Scott Neeson former president of 20th Century Fox International, sold his mansion, porsche, and yacht and left the industry to establish and personally oversee Cambodian Children’s Fund as Executive Director. (in Cambodia)