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TIL in 2003, Kirk Jones drunkenly swam over the Niagara Falls, earning himself a $2,300 fine and a lifetime ban from Canada.

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8aOaL TIL that flight recorders, commonly referred to as "black boxes", are actually orange!
NN4J TIL that ABBA member Anni-Frid Lyngstad was a survivor of Nazi Germany’s Lebensborn program, an attempt to selectively “breed” more children with “racially desirable” traits.
wLBxP TIL about Lima Syndrome, the opposite of Stockholm Syndrome. It is a situation where the captors develop sympathy for their captives.
NeoE TIL: The average age of menarche (first period in girls) declined from 17 to 13 in Europe from 1850 to 1960, and is well documented
6yo8 TIL the lobster chowder given to the cast and crew of Titanic on the last night of filming was drugged with PCP (Angel dust)