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TIL of the COMEX Hydra VIII experiment, where a team of professional divers dived to a depth of 536 m/1,752 ft while breathing Hydreliox, breathing gas consisting of 49% hydrogen, 50.2% helium and 0.8% oxygen

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kJ5P1 TIL that the we would know if there were Megalodon because whales would have bite marks.
yQ6L8 TIL that one of architect Frank Lloyd Wright's servants took an axe and killed several members of his family.
wWDP TIL that James Gordon Wolcott killed his family with a .22 long-barrel in 1967. Found not guilty by reason of insanity, he was later released and is now a psychology professor and chair of the Behavioral Sciences department at Millikin University, going by the name James St. James.
Wmdd TIL that patients of doctors who graduated from international medical schools had significantly lower mortality rates than patients cared for by doctors who graduated from U.S. medical schools
MWa7 TIL the stars in the Brazilian flag represents the stars in the sky at the day and hour of its independence