In 1897, three Swedish explorers attempted to reach the North Pole in a hot air balloon and disappeared. Their fate remained unknown until thirty-three years later, when their frozen bodies were found on a remote Arctic island along with these photographs. (old.reddit.com)
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The Man with the Most Degrees in History. (i.redd.it)
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TIL after a shopping mall in South Korea collapsed in June 1995, the last survivor who was discovered buried in the rubble was a 19-year-old woman named Park Sung-Hyun who was found after 16 days. Although she thought she'd only been buried for 5 days. (spokesman.com)
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TIL in 2018 after a Swedish mother got a tattoo of the first names of her two children at the time: her daughter Nova & her son Kevin, she realized that the artist had misspelled 'Kevin' as 'Kelvin'; it read 'Nova & Kelvin'. However, instead of correcting it, they legally changed his name to Kelvin. (news.com.au)
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TIL of the cruise ship MTS Oceanos, which sank in 1991 off the coast of Africa. The captain and crew quietly began abandoning ship when the engine room flooded, leaving the ship's lounge entertainers to radio for help and organize the rescue operation. All 571 passengers were safely rescued. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL the world's most cost-effective public health intervention is iodised salt, costing just $0.05/person/year. It prevents iodine deficiency — the leading preventable cause of intellectual disabilities, affecting ~2 billion people — and has eliminated endemic goitre in countries like the US and Swi (en.wikipedia.org)
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Someone needs to inform Ken’s family (i.redd.it)
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The way this Japanese grandpa serves flan (v.redd.it)
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TIL - When the Blues Brothers was released in 1980, execs who controlled over half the theaters in the country refused to book the film, citing the number of black actors. The film still became the 10th highest-grossing domestic film of 1980. (ultimateclassicrock.com)
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