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TIL a dog caused 3 deaths when it fell out of a window. It landed on a woman, killing her, shocked onlookers were hit by a bus and one died, and a man who saw it all had a fatal heart attack.

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QJKpa TIL in 1977, the Formula 1 driver, Hans Heyer, was not allowed to start a race after failing to qualify. He snuck onto the circuit with his car and decided to race anyway. It took officials 6 laps to notice and disqualify him from a race he wasn't even technically in.
gMQgW TIL it rains spiders in Australia
lom6G TIL: That 1985's Live Aid helped fund the corrupt Ethiopian government and was spent on guns, not to relieve famine.
E0g7 TIL in the Blue Angels’ 63 year history, nearly 10% of its pilots have died in training or air show accidents.
nQ47 TIL in 1997, when the computer Deep Blue went against Gary Kasparov in a game of Chess, Deep Blue made an unpredictable move in the 44th turn. Kasparov attributed this to Deep Blue’s “superior intelligence.” It was actually just a bug.