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TIL that Ryan Gosling was offered, and rejected, the chance to become a member of Backstreet Boys

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E1o6V TIL of Joan Murray who survived an 80 mph skydiving fall, thanks to landing on a mound of fire ants, who's bites are believed to have given her a rush of adrenaline which kept her heart beating.
x6kRw TIL The University of the South Pacific has campuses in all 12 Pacific Island countries and is one of only two universities in the world that is run as an intergovernmental organisation
BA4y TIL Usain Bolt got offered track scholarships from many American colleges but turned them down to train in his homeland, Jamaica.
GYLlg TIL there is a Solar Library containing the Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, stored in a 5D optical data storage made of quartz, in the glovebox of the Cherry Red Tesla Roadster orbiting the Sun. The Arch library will orbit the Sun for at least 30 millions of years inside Elon's Tesla Roadster
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