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TIL Simply calmly treading the water in a rip tide can return you to shore in 3 minutes, because rip currents are really whirlpools, according to an oceanography professor's study that sensors to analyze the flow of wave water. (Source: nps.edu, 2010)

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6En5Z Til that Beethoven has "curious tempo selections" in his works that musicians today generally adapt the tempo from what was written. Historians believe in 1815, a deafening Beethoven was gifted an inaccurate early metronome by J. Mälzel that is likley to have been sabotaged/broken in a fit of rage.
rR9mM TIL about Otto, an octopus that was able to climb onto the rim of his tank, squirt a jet of water to a bright light shining into his aquarium and cause a power outage. Staff believe that Otto had been annoyed by the lamp
RJEQ TIL That Sir Patrick Stewart used to regularly fabricate fake news in the newspaper he worked for because he was spending his time practicing theatre with a theatre company during times that conflicted with his work schedule as a journalist.
MeOAW TIL that Ethel (Vivian Vance) and Fred (William Frawley) of I Love Lucy hated each other. While out to eat she heard of his death, she celebrated and ordered everyone in the restaurant a bottle of champagne
jNrAR TIL that early in his imprisonment, Ted Kaczynski, the Unabomber, befriended Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh and Ramzi Yousef, a perpetrator of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. The trio discussed religion and politics and formed a friendship that lasted until McVeigh's execution in 2001.