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TIL of the 17-yr-old girl who fell 10,000ft out of a plane without a parachute and survived 10 days in the Peruvian jungle.

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BrdaK TIL of the "Stormtrooper Effect" to describe how the hero shoots more accurately as he becomes outnumbered or increasingly desperate. Meanwhile villains miss more shots as they outnumber the hero.
rONw TIL A Japanese artist named Hananuma Masakichi created a wooden sculpture of himself so life-like, people couldn’t distinguish between the statue and the artist. He even included his own hair, nails, and teeth!
NXdxP TIL that a Syrian Christian ascetic achieved notability by climbing a pillar in Syria in 423 and remaining there until his death 37 years later.
R5arj TIL In the 4th century BC, Aristarchus of Samos proposed that the sun – not the earth – was the center of the universe. Copernicus proposed the same theory 1,800 later.
7gbZ TIL that there is no economic gain to be made from deforesting the Amazon to grow crops, as more deforestation leads to less rainfall which leads to lower crop yield.