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TIL Edward Jenner, the father of the smallpox vaccine, proved that swifts don’t hibernate in lakes by holding one underwater for two minutes. It drowned.

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nerNG TIL SR-71 pilot Bill Weaver survived plunging from more than 78k feet after his plane malfunctioned and fell apart around him at more than 3 times the speed of sound. The force of the disintegration was so massive he was ripped from his ejection seat. Two weeks later he was back flying the Blackbird
5PlD TIL the word ‘paparazzi’ is derived from the Italian term for a very large mosquito.
vP1j7 TIL the Hall & Oates song "I Can't Go For That" is not about a relationship between two lovers, but about the way the music industry treats artists. John Oates said that the song is really about "not being pushed around by big labels, managers, & agents".
mxynp TIL that Cincinnati Reds player Adam Dunn once hit a home run from Ohio to Kentucky. The ball left the stadium and bounced off of the street onto a piece of driftwood in the Ohio River, stopping in Kentucky.
6wmX TIL “Snozzberry” was coined by Roald Dahl as a slang term for a penis. So in Willy Wonka, the kids are licking wallpaper that tastes like dicks.