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TIL that humans didn't perform the critically acclaimed high five before the 70's.

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5YDkp TIL in 2014, a 15 years old named Jamal Rutledge got arrested for unknown crime. While in handcuffs, the officer who arrested him collapsed from chest pain. Jamal immediately kicked security fence to alert others. Rescuers arrived and were able to transport the officer to hospital in time
5Ydr8 TIL Stephen Hawking’s ashes are buried beneath a memorial stone inscribed with his equation for the Hawking temperature of black holes. To commemorate his death, Hawking’s own words were beamed towards the nearest known black hole to Earth, about 3,500 light years away, by the European Space Agency
0wgVN TIL that Jack Daniel (the founder of the whiskey) died from kicking a safe. When he kicked it, he broke his toe which got infected. He eventually died from blood poisoning.
PYLjL TIL George Washington's great grandfather sailed a ship from England to the Colony of Virginia to trade goods when it crashed in the Potomac River. He found a nearby resident to stay with whose daughter he later married. He settled in the area and eventually became a local politician in the colony
R5v77 TIL about the "de Lackner HZ-1 Aerocycle" which was expected to become the US' standard reconnaissance machine. Unveiled in 1954, it required the unlucky user to stand on a platform above four whirling blades, which he then steered by tilting his bodyweight in the direction he wished to move.