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TIL in 2013 Harrison Okene, a cook aboard a Nigerian tugboat, was the only survivor of a crew of 12 when the boat sank. Trapped 100 feet below the surface, he survived for 72 hours in an air pocket before being rescued by Dutch divers from a nearby oil rig who had been sent in to recover the bodies.

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nxa9 TIL that a theoretical physicist is in between between “Monkey-Sex Observer” and “Vermin Handler” for the worst jobs in Science.
M7MZA TIL A repairman wanted to get out of work early and intentionally started a fire, causing $700,000,000 in damages to the USS Miami submarine
Ooywa TIL about .kkrieger, a fully 3D first person shooter which takes up only 96KB. This is about 60x smaller than the average selfie.
jXPX TIL the most powerful commercial radio station ever was WLW (700KHz AM), which during certain times in the 1930s broadcasted 500kW radiated power. At night, it covered half the globe. Neighbors within the vicinity of the transmitter heard the audio in their pots, pans, and mattresses.
EbOx TIL that George R.R. Martin had his GOT dragons have only two legs and a pair of wings instead of the traditional four legs and wings because he found it “more scientifically accurate”.