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TIL In 1988 Ivan McGuire, an experienced skydiver with 800 recorded dives jumped from the plane for his 3rd dive that day. He had his camera rig with him but completely forgot to equip a parachute rig, thus he jumped to his death from 10.000 feet. The camera footage of the fatal fall survived

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lobrA TIL of Gabriele Gast, an East German spy who was a high-ranking West German intelligence officer. She spied to continue seeing her lover in East Germany and was never paid for her spy work. However, she later learned that her lover was a professional Stasi seducer who strung her along for 20 years.
JYkW8 TIL members of the Heaven's Gate cult were carrying $5.75 in their pockets at the time of their mass suicide in 1997 in reference to the fare to get to heaven on the tail of a comet in Mark Twain’s short story Captain Stormfield's Visit to Heaven.
Jb5V TIL a stray dog saved a woman after she crashed down an embankment and was thrown through the back window of her car. The German Shepherd emerged from the woods, pulled her by the collar off the trunk and 50 yards through the briars to the road where she could be seen by passing motorists.
QJrNp TIL of the "Pioneering Spirit", the world's largest ship (by gross tonnage)
GXWj TIL that many quantum mechanical properties can be replicated on the macro scale using silicon droplets bouncing on a sheet of vibrating silicon. These droplets act like quantum mechanical particles and can even replicate Young’s double slit experiment on a human scale.