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TIL saying “ahoy-hoy” was at one time the preferred way to answer the phone.

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dd97 TIL that in 2004 a Great White Shark attacked Rob Howes while he was surfing off the coast of New Zealand. While clinging for his life to his surfboard a pod of dolphins swam up to him and formed a protective wall that effectively blocked out the shark and ended up saving Rob’s life.
OYw6 TIL Edgar Allan Poe’s “The narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym” (1838) was about 4 shipwreck survivors stranded in a boat before they killed and ate a cabin boy–Richard Parker. In 1884, a boat was stranded with only 4 survivors. 3 of the men killed and ate the cabin boy, also named Richard Parker.
4kZpX TIL that Helena Bonham Carter reprised her role as Lady Tottington (from the 2005 Wallace & Gromit: The Curse Of the Were-Rabbit film) in a Wallace & Gromit sofa Commercial, back in 2019.
wyAY TIL that An old custom in ancient Babylon compels all women to go to the temple of Aphrodite and have sex with a stranger at least once in their lives.
KYWDJ TIL Samsung has its own South Korean professional baseball team called the Samsung Lions