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TIL James Fixx, the man who popularized jogging in America died of a heart attack while running.

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R7joj TIL Carlos Alhinho, a Portuguese professional soccer player and manager was killed when he opened the doors on the elevator on the sixth floor of his hotel in Benguela. He stepped in and found that the carriage was not there, but the ground floor. He fell down five floors onto the top of the cabin.
DDNv TIL that the Gretzky brothers hold the NHL record for the most goals scored by a set of brothers, with a total of 2,861. Of which Wayne scored 2,857 and Brent scored 4.
R5dl7 TIL in Taiwan, recipes are also free tickets for a lottery drawing held by the government every 2 months. The grand prize is NT$10 million (over 300,000 USD).
wX6Y TIL chess grandmaster Magnus Carlsen once beat 10 challengers simultaneously without looking at any of the boards.
JYv9V TIL While the film "Entebbe", which was about an airliner hijacking, was being filmed at Malta International Airport, Afriqiyah Airways Flight 209, an actual hijacked flight, landed at the airport. Scenes from the hostages exiting the Afriqiyah plane were filmed, edited and inserted into the movie.