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TIL that the higher a cat falls from, the more likely they are to survive.

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Y7eBP TIL: The freedom towers height is in dedication to America's declaration of independence
4XYJR Fifty years ago today, air stewardess Vesna Vulovic plunged more than 33,000 feet from an exploding airliner, landed in a Czechoslovak mountain range, and survived. Subsequently, it was determined that Vulovic’s fall was the highest that a human has ever sustained without a parachute.
M7GWV TIL in the 1630s, Cardinal Richelieu grew weary of watching his dinner guests pick their teeth with their table knives, grinded down the end, and invented the modern dinner knife
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y96v TIL 28 countries boycotted the 1976 Olympic Games because New Zealand was allowed to compete