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TIL A paraglider was sucked into a storm for over 40 minutes, passed out and reached a height of 32,000ft - higher than Mount Everest.

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5v8R TIL the “ugliest man” in Uganda has had 8 children with 2 wives.
KO1eB TIL of the 1975 Moorgate tube crash, where 43 people died and 74 were injured after a London Underground train failed to stop and ran into a dead end at speed
v1LJx TIL in 1862, Confederate General Simon Bolivar Buckner surrendered to US General Ulysses Grant and in 1944, his son, Lt General Simon Bolivar Buckner Jr., died at the Battle of Okinawa.
xVBNw TIL: At only 2mm long, Water Boatmen have the worlds loudest genitals. When rubbed, the penis will emit a noise at 99 decibels - the equivalent of being in the front row of an orchestra
ZxoG TIL that “America’s public school teachers almost uniformly now come from the bottom 25 percent of their college classes.”