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TIL Dwayne Johnson’s manager is his ex wife Dany Garcia

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MpMK TIL In 1942 The Japanese (led by Gen. Imamura) fed 200 American POW’s to the sharks off Java Island in what became known as the Pig Basket Atrocities
6wlm TIL that Martin Seligman proved that people with a pessimistic explanatory style are more likely to develop depression. He also proved that, with some work, people can teach themselves a more optimistic explanatory style.
XEgRQ The U.S. Navy has officially published three videos that show UFOs are genuine, several years after the notorious clips first leaked online and properly ushered in the UFO renaissance. Last year, the Navy confirmed the three videos, taken by Navy pilots, indeed show “unexplained aerial phenomena,” but the service also said the footage should have never been released to the public in the first place.
mxdjo TIL the city of Portland, OR once drained a 38 million gallon reservoir because a man peed in it.
WkxrL TIL the Japanese high-speed rail system has a network of seismometers that will stop their bullet trains in the event of an earthquake. This system was activated just 12 seconds before the 2011 earthquake and tsunami and as a result, only one bullet train on its test run derailed that day.