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p844A TIL that the US Navy ship USS New York has part of its hull forged from salvaged steel from the 9/11 attacks.
GYn6j TIL The Ring Finders is a worldwide organization of metal-detection enthusiasts who recover lost items at little to no cost. Members have about an 80% success rate at finding last keys, rings, cellphones, time capsules, burial urns and more.
VMZx0 TIL that the first person to be voted out of the first version of Survivor committed suicide a month after going home.
j6k5N TIL that before Chris Hansen worked on To Catch a Predator, he was an NBC correspondent and investigative reporter that covered, through means of hidden cameras, corruption involving child slave labor and U.S citizen’s collusion with terror groups surrounding the September 11th attacks
0aA5 TIL the first known Easter egg in a video game was a secret room in Atari Adventure (1979) that credited the game’s developer, Warren Robinett. Atari did not allow their developers to be credited at the time so Robinett added the feature, told no one, and quit before anything could be done about it.