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TIL In 1987, an 18-month old girl, Jessica McClure, fell 22 feet into a well in her aunt’s property in Midland, Texas. The rescue took 58 hours and was televised on CNN, the first 24 hr news station.

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E1g67 Telling someone to go jump off a cliff may sound like an insult, but to an adventure photographer like Krystle Wright it’s just another day at the office. In this week’s Today I Learned, Wright shares some of the insight she’s gained while photographing BASE jumpers. Did you know that "BASE" is actually an acronym for the four different objects a BASE jumper can plunge from?
pLe TIL that since 1993, more than 700 girls and women have been raped, tortured, mutilated, and murdered in the Northern Mexican city of Ciudad Juárez, which has the highest female murder rate per capita of any city in Mexico or the US. It’s being called “femicide”.
e0kmL TIL: The first death in WWII was Franciszek Honiok, a German of Polish descent. The Gestapo murdered him and left his body at a radio station that the Gestapo, dressed in Polish uniforms, attacked. The body helped "prove" Polish aggression to justify the Nazi's invasion of Poland the next day.
epY6 TIL That in addition to HTTP response codes 403: Forbidden, 404: Not found, etc. There also is Code 418: I’m a Teapot.
AwDa TIL that the cloth headrest/cover on a train or airline seat is called an antimacassar, and is so called as its original purpose was to prevent the macassar oil used by Victorian men as hair gel from damaging the fabric.