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TIL that payed, a common misspelling of paid, is an actual word that means an act of sealing the deck or seams of wooden ships with pitch to prevent water leakage. This makes it an atomic typo(link in comments)

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VMZXp TIL nine years ago we had the technology to display on a screen what people see in their minds. (How has this technology progressed since then, one wonders?)
6orl TIL Martin Luther, once said “I think these things [firearms] were invented by Satan himself, for they can’t be defended against with (ordinary) weapons and fists. All human strength vanishes when confronted with firearms. A man is dead before he sees what’s coming.”
pYdNG TIL that a Pilot in 1990 was sucked out of the plane window for 20 minutes and survived.
pYnRA TIL: Actor Tony Danza (peak fame in the 80s) was briefly a professional boxer. He went 9-3 with 7 KOs (5 in the 1st round).
rgZw TIL for those who jumped from the WTC on 9/11/2001, the fall lasted 10 seconds. They struck the ground at just under 150 MPH – not fast enough to lose consciousness while falling, but fast enough to ensure instant death on impact. The deaths of those who jumped were ruled homicide, not suicide.