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TIL Blackbeard and his crew would lock themselves in the hold of the ship and light pots of sulphur to see who could last the longest without suffocating.

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wLpj1 TIL the Panama Canal is running out of water.
5ndQ TIL John Fogerty was sued for plagiarizing himself.
8aGlb TIL that scuba divers caught in the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami were reportedly tossed around underwater, yet boats floating above were unaffected and failed to notice the wave as it passed by.
6W1l TIL a soldier in World War 1 performed a Battlefield-esque maneuver when he fell out of and landed back in his plane whilst attempting a loop
lo5EV TIL Prince Pedro of Portugal fell in love with his wife's maid, Inês de Castro. After his wife died, his father, King Afonso IV, desired he remarry but not to Inês. Pedro refused; so, the King had Inês killed. Pedro captured two of her killers and publicly executed them by tearing out their hearts.