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TIL in 2012, a skydiver was almost hit by a meteor in mid-air and caught the incident on film (x-post worldnews)

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QNJ6X TIL When AIDS patient Steve Pieterson was interviewed by Tammy Faye Baker on her program House Party With Tammy Faye he had a prognosis of approximately 6 months to live having been diagnosed in 1982. He's still alive today.
PxnJ TIL that scientists can read dreams using brain scans.
Eg8rW TIL that the record for the longest gap between release and reaching number one on the Billboard charts was set by the Mariah Carey song "All I Want for Christmas Is You", which first reached number one in the United States 25 years after its release.
lomOr TIL after baseball player Oscar Taveras died in a car crash in the Dominican Republic, Kansas City Royals player Yordano Ventura honored him with several tributes written on his uniform during Game 6 of the 2014 World Series. 2 years later, Ventura died in a car crash in the Dominican Republic.
Y7Vnr TIL that US military pilots, after being certified to carry nuclear bombs, were issued an eye patch so that, in the event of a full-scale nuclear war, if they were blinded by a nuclear detonation they would be able to remove the eye patch and still see.