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TIL in the 2009 Philippines floods a teenager named Muelmar Magallanes saved 30 lives. After leaping into the rushing waters to save his family from danger, he repeatedly jumped back in to save others, including a trapped mother and baby, until too tired to fight the current he was swept away.

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6a0J TIL Frank Zappa performed at a Casino in Switzerland when a flare set off by an audience member started a fire that burned down the casino.The event is immortalized in Deep Purple’s song “Smoke on the Water”
YpK5d TIL there is a LOT of evidence for life after death. The University of Virginia Medical School has a Division of Perceptual Studies that researches this issue (among others). Researchers there gave a talk in 2017 entitled “Is There Life after Death? Fifty Years of Research at UVA”
KO7E4 TIL the 1979 disco hit "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now" almost became the national anthem of Sierra Leone after a 1992 coup.
N7Mb TIL that a star called R136a1 is the most massive (265 solar masses) and most luminous (8,700,000 times the luminosity of the Sun) star known.
QNj8a TIL Lee Harvey Oswald's Russian-born widow still lives in the US (she's been a naturalized citizen since 1989). She has 3 kids (2 daughters with Oswald, 1 son with 2nd husband) and still advocates the theory that Oswald was innocent.