TIL in 2022, during a deep sea expedition, a beer bottle was found, fully intact, at the 'challenger deep' of mariana trench which is the deepest point in the ocean
https://www.unilad.com/news/scientist-beer-bottle-deepest-point-ocean-mariana-trench-667878-20240213

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TIL that there's a Japanese crab called the Heikegani whose shell looks like an angry samurai face. Japanese folklore says they're the reincarnated spirits of Heike warriors who died in a 12th-century sea battle.
https://www.japanpowered.com/folklore-and-urban-legends/heikegani-the-samurai-crab

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TIL in 1934, Adolf Hitler told a British correspondent in Berlin "At the risk of appearing to talk nonsense I tell you that the National Socialist movement will go on for 1,000 years! ... Don't forget how people laughed at me 15 years ago when I declared that one day I would govern Germany."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolf_Hitler#Dictatorship

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TIL 514107 Ka'epaoka'āwela is an asteroid that shares Jupiter's orbit but travels in the opposite direction. Aptly named the "Jupiter trickster," it is the first known object to maintain this stable "wrong-way" resonance, having avoided collision with Jupiter for at least a million years.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/514107_Ka%CA%BBepaoka%CA%BB%C4%81wela

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TIL about the musical piece Symphony of Sirens, where the whole city of Baku was conducted by Arseny Avraamov from a rooftop by waving two red flags where he coordinated navy ship sirens, bus and car horns, factory sirens, cannons, the entire Soviet flotilla of the Caspian Sea and artillery guns
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20221103-arseny-avraamov-the-man-who-conducted-a-city

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TIL despite its strong following thanks to the popularity of Back to the Future, the DMC DeLorean has a reputation for poor build quality and an unsatisfactory driving experience. In 2017, Time magazine included the DeLorean in its list of the 50 worst cars of all time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMC_DeLorean

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TIL that although the common view of Cleopatra was one of a prolific seductress, she had only two known sexual partners, Caesar and Antony. Plutarch described Cleopatra as having had a stronger personality and charming wit than physical beauty.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleopatra#Roman_literature_and_historiography

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TIL Nickelodeon’s famous green slime was originally made from rotting food and dumped on kids on the show, “You Can’t Do That on Television.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/You_Can%27t_Do_That_on_Television

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TIL that after he shot Martin Luther King Jr., James Earl Ray planned to flee to an African country without an extradition deal with the US and only failed because one of his 2 falsified passports had a typo which was noticed when he made the mistake of keeping both in the same wallet.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-36434706

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TIL when Napoleon's son, Napoleon Franz died at the age 21, his last words were "My story is my birth and death. Between my cradle and my grave, there is a big zero". He was initially buried in Vienna but in 1940, Hitler ordered his remains to be moved to Paris near his father's tomb
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_II#Death

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TIL that Creedence Clearwater Revival were from the SF Bay Area, despite being recognized as pioneers of swamp rock (a genre originated in Louisiana), as they utilized lyrics about Southern US iconography (bayous, catfish, etc.) while singing with a Louisiana twang.
https://www.psaudio.com/blogs/copper/creedence-clearwater-revival-kings-of-swamp-rock

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TIL that before the Lindbergh Kidnapping in 1931, kidnapping was not a federal crime.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Kidnapping_Act

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TIL that the crew of Apollo 14 was the least experienced crew to fly to the Moon, having a combined total of 15 minutes of spaceflight time between them. Two had never flown to space before, and the third, Alan Shepard, flew a short suborbital mission before being medically grounded for 7 years.
https://www.space.com/17465-apollo-14-facts.html

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TIL "Louie Louie", the song that became controversial by the rock band The Kingsman, is often called the "Rosetta Stone" of punk rock. With over an estimated 1600 covers it's the most recorded rock song in history.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louie_Louie

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TIL that Over 50% of languages use some form of “ma/na” for mother and “ba/pa/ta” for father because it's easy for babies to produce these sounds.
https://allthingslinguistic.com/post/159731144929/names-for-mama-papa-and-other-kinship-terms-in?

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TIL that during the final 24 hours of George Washington's life, his physicians withdrew approximately 80 ounces (2.3 liters) of blood in an attempt to treat his throat infection. This amount represented about 40% of his total blood volume.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington#Death

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TIL that in the first edition of The Hobbit, Gollum's size was never described, leading illustrator Tove Jansson to draw him as being incredibly large in her illustrated edition of the book. Because of this, Tolkien added a denoscription of Gollum being small in the next edition of the novel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gollum#Characteristics

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TIL United States Releases Millions of Flies over Panama's Darien Gap Every Week
https://newsroompanama.com/2025/05/10/why-the-united-states-releases-millions-of-flies-over-panama-every-week/

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TIL Pickett's Charge, a Confederate infantry assault during the Battle of Gettysburg. Pickett's Charge is called the "high-water mark of the Confederacy". The failure of the charge crushed the Confederate hope of winning a decisive victory in the North & forced Gen. Lee to retreat back to Virginia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickett%27s_Charge

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TIL While Around the World in Eighty Days was being released as a serial, various railway and ship liner companies offered money to Verne if he would mention them in his stories. Being one of the earliest known attempts at product placement.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_placement

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TIL that in 1995, the deadliest elevator accident in history occurred when a 12-ton locomotive fell down a mine shaft in South Africa, landing on a two-story elevator and causing it to plunge 1,500 feet, killing all 104 miners on board.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaal_Reefs_mining_disaster

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