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TIL Gabe Newell owns marine research organization Inkfish, which operates "Limiting Factor" - a submersible which had previously reached Challenger Deep on multiple occasions and traveled to the deepest points of all five oceans.

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NXp4E TIL the fastest speed a human being has ever attained was when Apollo 10 returned from the moon at 24,791 mph (36,360 feet/second).
OG9rg TIL of the Beneš decrees, laws which allow Slovakia to steal property from its ethnic Hungarians. The post-WWII era laws came from the former Czechoslovakia, where it was used to take property and citizenship away from ethnic Germans and Hungarians, and subject them to forced labor.
Y7v7Z TIL the Leaning Tower of Pisa began to tilt early in it's construction. In an effort to compensate for the tilt, engineers built upper floors with one side taller than the other. Because of this, the tower is curved.
Zpykp TIL about Richard Ankrom, an artist who created and installed a perfect replica of a highway sign to prevent motorists from missing the exit from CA-110 (north) to I-5 (north)
QbEE TIL the 1981 Italian horror film ‘Nightmare’ was so controversial in the UK, the distributor received an 18 month prison sentence for refusing to edit 1 second of violence. The film had already been cut by over 3 minutes.