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TIL that Tom Cruise did over 500 Skydives and 13,000 Motocross jumps in order to prepare for a single stunt in Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One

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nmbW TIL that Cameron Lyle of the University of New Hampshire is ending his college athletics career and will miss the conference championship in order to donate bone marrow and save a strangers life. He is a 1 in 5,000,000 perfect match.
M7YjA TIL that it is illegal to mail dirty underwear.
Qnnp TIL Winston Churchill once said “You can always count on the Americans to do the right thing—after they have tried everything else.”
EXgW TIL having a gun in your house no matter the way it is stored does not decrease your chance of homicide. Instead it increases the chances of homicide by 300% and suicide by 500%.
0wQlM TIL Being forgetful makes you smarter. The primary function of memory is to improve decision making, so forgetting irrelevant details helps you to make more informed and relevant decisions.