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TIL Slash, Lenny Kravitz and Nicolas Cage were classmates in High School.

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Y7Z6d TIL about Charlesfort, a 1562 French settlement built on modern Parris Island, South Carolina. Facing starvation, the settlers built their own boat and crossed the Atlantic. Miraculously, some made it to France. The one settler who chose to stay was later captured by the Spanish.
yVY0v TIL the British submarine HMS Poseidon sank in 1931 after a collision with a Chinese steamship; 21 crew died in the incident. In 1972, the sub was secretly salvaged by China which wasn't known about in the West until a journalist discovered its description in a 2002 Chinese magazine article.
b9y8p TIL that hundreds of US agents during the cold war were caught due to their fake soviet passports. It was later discovered that it was due to the stainless-steel staples used in these forged passports, unlike the soviet ones which corroded very easily.
w4Vo TIL: Extinguishing macho culture on oil rigs resulted in a company’s accident rate declining by 84%, while productivity, efficiency, and reliability increased beyond the industry’s previous benchmark
YeZG TIL: “Good-bye” is a contraction of “God be with ye”