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TIL Togo was the hero of the Great Race of Mercy in 1925. Many children would have died if it weren't for him.

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wow0Y TIL In the early 1900s Mauricia de Tiers performed a stunt known as the “Dip of Death” in which her car was launched upside down and landed onto a ramp that would flip her upright. Mauricia de Tiers ultimately died performing the stunt when her automobile left the track and crashed into the arena.
9wQym TIL a Volcano Snail with a shell of Iron is a real thing
awRW0 TIL there are 14 sailors stuck on an oil tanker off the coast of the UAE for nearly 4 years due to their company abandoning them and the ship.
eJ7J TIL in 2010 the RIKEN institute in Japan created mutant cherry blossom trees by firing ion beams at them in a particle accelerator. The mutated trees now bloom 4 times a year and produce more flowers.
e4Kk TIL when someone says they’re allergic to dust, they are actually allergic to the feces left behind by a house dust mite that it secreted onto the dead skin cell.