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TIL Mike Campbell (of the Heartbreakers) wrote Don Henley's Hit "Boys of Summer"

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A7dd TIL that a flight attendant survived falling 33,000 feet after her plane was destroyed by a bomb. It’s the longest anyone’s even fallen and lived.
R5848 TIL divorce risk goes down if the husband wins the lottery but goes up if the wife wins.
wLexo TIL that in 36 BCE, Roman statesman Marcus Varro wrote about germs, describing "minute creatures which cannot be seen by the eyes, which...enter the body through the mouth and nose and there cause serious diseases." The germ theory of disease would not be accepted widely for another 1,900 years.
X7JQ TIL an undercover Israeli agent armed only with a .22 stopped a group of terrorist attacking an aircraft with grenades and AK47, After securing the event he was arrested and put to trial in Switzerland
QXV6 TIL a group of men fought in the American Revolution and lived to see the Civil War end.