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TIL, Vesna Vulović, a flight attendant who holds the world record for surviving the highest fall without a parachute (33,330 ft) after her plane exploded in mid-air.

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Aywl TIL there are Silent Discos out there, where there can be up to three different DJs spinning music at the same time, and everyone in the club can listen to any of the DJs through headphones. Observers without headphones would see a bunch of people dancing to silence.
Wkgdd TIL that, once the Civil War began, Confederate general Robert E. Lee's plantation outside Washington DC was repurposed by the Lincoln administration to house a camp for escaped slaves. It contained a school, hospital, and cemetery, and it is now the site of Arlington National Cemetery.
R5Vy8 TIL Metallica‘a first album “Kill ‘Em All” was originally to be titled “Metal Up Your Ass” with a picture of a hand clutching a dagger emerging from a toilet.
jPZE TIL Humans have 15 “other senses” that include things like balance, temperature, pain and time, as well as internal senses for suffocation, thirst, and fullness.
ZpAXD TIL about Elmer McCurdy, who was shot and killed after robbing a train in 1911. For the next 65 years, his body was put on display at amusement parks, with his identity being completely forgotten. Eventually, an autopsy was performed, revealing multiple ticket stubs inside the corpse's mouth.