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TIL there is such a thing as a 'camoflage passport'. They are fake documents from countries that have changed names, or never existed. The idea is to be as uninteresting as possible.

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Wk8R9 TIL over 200 years after the HMS Bounty sank due to a mutiny led by Fletcher Christian, a reconstruction of the same ship sank, taking the life of Claudene Christian, a descendant of Fletcher.
P0lJ TIL - There is a performance artist whose art includes eating human flesh in public places and is living proof that England does not have an anti-cannibalism statute. He has, however, been arrested for making earrings out of human fetuses.
VMmlQ TIL of Joseph Trombino, a Brinks truck driver who survived the infamous 1981 Brink's robbery perpertrated by the father of current San Francisco District Attornery Chesa Boudin and the 1993 World Trade Center Bombing, only to die at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
mgby TIL that on June 28, 2009 Stephen Hawking threw a party for time-travelers. He announced the party the day after it happened, and according to Hawking, no one came.
GYVOJ TIL a bully who terrorized the town, commiting a number of varying crimes including attempted murder, was shot dead in front of 40+ people yet nobody “saw a thing.”