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TIL After being pulled from his car after having a serious accident, Sam Kinison had a conversation with a person nobody else could see, saying “I don’t want to die. I don’t want to die.”, he paused, then asked “But why?”. After another pause, his friend heard him clearly say: “Okay, okay, okay.”

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4jJN TIL that the lamp in an IMAX projector is so bright that if it were on the moon we could see it from earth with the naked eye.
M771K TIL: The first book featuring a ship going into outer space and meeting aliens was written in the 2nd century AD
awpZN Today I learned that a certain portion of the population will consistently feel the urge to defecate shortly after walking into bookstores or libraries. Named after the otherwise-unheard-of woman whose confession to a Japanese book magazine made it famous, it's known as the Mariko Aoki phenomenon.
DQE1V TIL about Leila Denmark, an American pediatrician who was seeing patients until age 103
GADNN TIL a woman aboard a flight from Manchester to Florida suffered a heart attack. The stewardess called for assistance and 15 cardiologists, en route to a cardiology conference, responded to save her.