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TIL The first man to survive going down Niagara Falls died by slipping on an orange peel

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Zweo TIL that the 56,000 tonnes of food that Band Aid/Live Aid raised to relieve the 1983-85 Ethiopian Famine was left to rot at port due to Ethiopian Government Policies.
dDka8 TIL: How North America made Britain fund their own invasion by Napolean(Part of the War of the Third Coalition)
kwM4 TIL an abandoned lifeboat was found on the world’s most remote island in 1964. Its origin is still a mystery.
E1PKx TIL that when EEG was used to measure brain activity of a woman with multiple personality disorder there was no brain activity linked to sight whenever one of her blind 'alters' was in control (although her eyes were open), but that normal activity returned to the area when a sighted alter took over
yQEme TIL that, on the 90s show "Are You Afraid of the Dark?" the powder thrown on the fire to make it roar was Coffee-Mate. This is demonstrated in the Hulu documentary "The Orange Years: The Nickelodeon Story"