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TIL a man peed his way out of an avalanche

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DQJ1p TIL of the only person ever to return a Pulitzer Prize, journalist Janet Cooke, due to her fabricating a story of an 8-year-old heroin addict which triggered a city-wide search
Qpak TIL after the first version of Word was shipped, Microsoft sent the whole developer team to Cancun on vacation
8DZ8 TIL Bill Paxton can be seen in photos being held above the crowd as a boy on the day that John F Kennedy was assassinated.
DQnMY TIL about the Inauguration of the last Russian Tsar. Over 1,200 peasants were killed in a crowd crush event caused by Tsar Nicholas II offering a crowd of 500,000 beer and pretzels to win their approval at his inauguration. In response to the tragedy, the Tsar attended a private gala the same night.
oRpEo TIL: there is a Japanese word (Tsundoku) which means buying books and never reading them.