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TIL "pre-Viking" Europeans may have started settlements in Canada before 1000AD

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VNMD TIL of Ken Peters, a SeaWorld trainer who was attacked near the end of a show in 2006. For about 10 minutes the whale repeatedly submerged him to the bottom of the tank. He stayed calm during the entire ordeal and used his training to calm it enough to be let go. He still works at the same SeaWorld.
xaMb TIL that in 1861, a small hamlet in Western NY voted to cecede and join the Confederates, sending 5 soldiers to fight. They didn’t officially rejoin the Union until 1946.
oRnpR TIL about Elsie Eiler, who since her husband's death in 2004, has remained the sole resident of Monowi, Nebraska.
6Lpl TIL that pink dolphins are just sun burnt albino dolphins
QNkVX TIL If you heat the diamond in the open air, it will begin to melt and burn at around 700 degrees Celsius (1,292 degrees Fahrenheit). Burning a diamond without oxygen, however, will make it change into graphite (a crystalline form of carbon) before transforming into a fluid.