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TIL in 2007, a 17 year old visiting the San Francisco Zoo provoked a Tiger enough that it leapt from its confinement and killed him

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PO7J TIL the entire crew of the USS William D Porter, a WW2 destroyer, were placed under arrest after accidentally firing a torpedo at President Roosevelt aboard the USS Iowa during training drills. Other mishaps and failings give the ship one of the worst careers in history.
8eX7X TIL that the southern most tip of Canada is further south then the northern most tip of Japan.
LXdZ TIL “cracker” as an insult means “one who cracks the whip”.
VMbXZ TIL about Garden-Path Phrases such as "The old man the boat". They look wrong at first but they're 100% grammatically correct.
D1Emr TIL that some species of turtle can breathe through their butt. When hibernating under ice-covered water, the turtles cannot come up to breathe. Since their metabolism is so slow in winter, they don't need much oxygen, so they are able to obtain it by sucking water into the cloaca.