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TIL Warwick Davis has the most Lego Minifigures with Seven

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VMkXm TIL of William Rankin, a fighter pilot who survived ejecting into a thunderstorm. He encountered very low temperature, frostbite, massive wind and lightning, severe decompression, and nearly drowned from breathing in rain water. Overall, he was in the cloud for more than 40 minutes.
WVb8 TIL that in 1998 a 24 year-old Mexican peed on the Arc de Triomphe, extinguishing the eternal flame that had been burning since 1921 in honor to the fallen in WWI.
W7dgd TIL John Paul Jones, bassist for Led Zeppelin, has been married to the same woman since 1967
6NgJ TIL you can monitor the location of every large ship in the world, in real-time
Wkpj4 TIL While rendering Toy Story, Pixar named each and every rendering server after an animal. When a server completed rendering a frame, it would play the sound of the animal, so their server farm will sound like an actual farm.