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TIL Dutch cyclist Maarten de Jonge has cheated death twice after changing both MH17 and MH370 flights.

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vvYD TIL Tom Hardy impressed the real Charles Bronson so much with his preparations for his role as him in the Bronson movie that Charles shaved off his trademark mustache so that Tom could wear it as a loose mustache in the movie.
mxwpR TIL that Michael Jordan turned down MLB offer from Oakland A's so he could 'do the baseball thing from the ground up'
oRrKA TIL about the Tree of 40 Fruit, where multiple 'donor' branches are grafted together so that a single tree produces dozens of fruits such as apricots, cherries and plums
a8mQN TIL a woman presented with a persistent cough & fever for 6 months & despite receiving antibiotics & anti-tuberculosis meds during 4 of those months, her symptoms did not improve. Eventually, the cause was found to be an inverted bag-like structure in her lung that was later revealed to be a condom.
0dd9L TIL of the high % of NASA astronauts that were Boy Scouts. Of the 312 selected as astronauts, at least 207 have been active in scouting. Of the 24 to travel to the moon, 20 were scouts, including 11 of the 12 moonwalkers, and all three members of the crew of Apollo 13.