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TIL Nicolas Cage won China’s ‘Best Global Actor’ award in 2013

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5ZBP TIL that multiple people have died attempting to cross a seemingly calm, innocent creek called the Bolton Strid. The stream actually hosts multiple underwater cave systems and dangerous currents below the surface that have sucked numerous people to their deaths.
8mMV TIL When two New Zealand trawlers came across a Japanese submarine that outweighed them by more than 1000 tons, the two Kiwi trawlers kept ramming it until they beached the much larger sub. This allowed the U.S. to capture key Japanese codebooks
awJay TIL in 2017, elevated radioactivity levels were detected across Europe. While the increase was not dangerous for Europeans, it was estimated that people in a radius of several km from whatever happened were at severe risk. Nobody has assumed responsibility yet.
d8j4Z TIL that in 2001 a New York couple used a submersible to be married two and a half miles underwater, on the wreck of the Titanic
eKXn TIL humans have invisible “stripes” in their skin that are only visible due to certain skin diseases. The patterns that these “stripes” form are thought to be the migration patterns of embryonic cells.