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TIL the USS Scorpion was lost at sea in May 1968 with 99 men lost. The wreckage was found almost two miles deep, making it impossible to determine the cause of accident. Underwater acoustics out of the Canary Islands heard the exact time of the implosion but were unaware it was the sub sinking.

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ZmyQ TIL that the term ‘sour grapes’ originates from the Aesop’s fable “The Fox and the Grapes” (620–564 BCE), in which a fox, unable to reach grapes he is seeking, decides that they must have been sour. The moral that accompanies the story is that “any fool can despise what he can not get”.
j64lE TIL about Alan Magee, an American airman during WWII. In 1943, he was on a bombing run over Saint-Nazaire, France, when his plane broke apart in mid-air and his parachute was torn. Magee blacked out from lack of oxygen and survived a 22,000-foot fall by crashing through a train station's glass roof.
R78R8 TIL about the story Margaret Ann Bulkley, who dressed as a man for 56 years to become her alter-ego, Dr James Miranda Barry, 50 years before women were allowed to enroll into medical schools. Her secret was exposed when she died, after 46 years working as an army medical officer
wo087 TIL every person who has become a centibillionaire (a net worth of usually $100 billion, €100 billion, or £100 billion), first became one in 2017 or later except for Bill Gates who first reached the threshold in 1999.
XEwlR TIL that after Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated, his coffin was taken by train from New York to Washington DC and thousands gathered along the route to see it pass by. Paul Fusco photographed the crowds from the train.