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TIL a skydiver fell at 130 kilometres an hour, but landed on top of a fire ant nest. The stinging from the ants provided adrenaline to her body which kept her alive.

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b9Lj7 TIL Cat mummies were so plentiful in Egypt that, in the 1800s, an English company bought a load of 180,000, pulverized them and spread them on farm fields as fertilizer. Also so many baboons and ibises were mummified for the trade it likely drove them to extinction in Egypt.
16XR7 Today I learned Nurses Day is the birthday of Florence Nightingale
neY8o TIL That a study on drinking alcohol found that the amount of shrinkage in the hippocampus — the brain area associated with memory and reasoning — was related to the amount people drank. Those who had four or more drinks a day had almost six times the risk of hippocampal shrinkage as did nondrinkers
lo1xA TIL Most clinical trials show no evidence of Antioxidants in preventing disease in healthy individuals. Research shows that Antioxidant supplements can be harmful to health - especially for smokers. Overall, Antioxidant supplements can actually do more harm than good for the average person.
xdk1 TIL In 1975, a man returned two used tires to a Nordstrom department store. Nordstrom has never sold tires but, in what has become one of the most famous and enduring customer service legends, the store refunded his money because the customer is always right.