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TIL Gordon Ramsay nearly died in 2008 after falling down a 85m cliff in Iceland to icy water below. In 2011, he was doused in gasoline and held at gunpoint while investigating shark fin trading in Costa Rica.

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nelMo TIL that Sneha Anne Philip is officially considered to be one of the victims of 9/11. Being a doctor who lived nearby, it's believed that she died trying to help the injured at Ground Zero. There's just one problem: no-one saw her there. Or, indeed, anywhere at all. She went missing on 9/10.
804L TIL William Hung of American Idol fame gave up his music career in 2011 to become a Technical Crime Analyst for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department
D1eGj TIL that The Hulk was inspired by a woman. Jack Kirby created the character after watching a woman lift a car off of her child, who was trapped underneath.
8Qyb TIL Even comparing different races, two humans from anywhere on the planet are more similar than two Chimpanzees in the same troop, due to a massive volcano that bottlenecked our species’ population.
awP7y TIL of Aarne-Thompson–Uther Index, a catalogue of folktale types used in folklore studies, dividing tales into sections with an AT number for each entry, with the same tale type number referred to by its central motif or the variant folktales of that type, and related tales were grouped together