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Kenny Broad, a National Geographic emerging explorer and environmental anthropologist, explains how he sometimes smells the characteristic rotten-egg stench of hydrogen sulfide gas when scuba diving in blue holes—even while wearing a mask and regulator.

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grPrL TIL of George Francis Train. He founded railroads, built parts of the transcontinental railroad and found a horse drawn tram in London. He traveled around the world in 80 days in 1870 and claimed: "Verne stole my thunder. I'mPhileas Fogg".
w7WJ TIL that there were enough discrepancies in famous outlaw John Dillinger’s autopsy and oddities in the events leading up to his death to suggest that the FBI killed the wrong man and simply claimed otherwise to escape embarrassment.
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