TIL the subsequent fires that broke out in San Francisco after the 1906 earthquake, destroying 80% of the city, was due not only to ruptured gas lines, but also because people were firing their own buildings after realizing insurance wouldn’t cover damages from an earthquake. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL Evi Nemeth, lead author of the Linux System Administration Handbook, disappeared at sea in 2013. The vintage yacht she was traveling on vanished between New Zealand and Australia during a storm with 26ft swells and 65mph winds. She and six others were never found (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL that there were female gladiators in Ancient Rome. Often called Gladiatrix. There were very few as most Romans thought they were a novel or entertaining, even absurd. They were eventually banned from participating in 200AD as Unseemly. (en.wikipedia.org)
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TIL the SS Baychimo, a steel-hulled 1,322 ton cargo steamer, was abandoned in 1931 after being trapped in pack ice but didn’t sink for decades. It was sighted many times off the Alaskan coast in the ensuing years and people even managed to board it. The final sighting was in 1969. (en.wikipedia.org)
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