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TIL in 2015, a woman's parachute failed to deploy while skydiving, surviving with life-threatening injuries. Days before, she survived a mysterious gas leak at her house. Both were later found to be intentional murder plots by her husband.

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M7oO8 Today I learned that in 1994, a plane was flying from Moscow to Hong Kong when the pilot's children got into the cockpit and accidentally turned off the autopilot. This resulted in a plane crash that killed all 75 people on the plane.
PYKwZ TIL Loki boned a horse in Norse mythology.
J1JL4 TIL that the Hoover Dam contains enough concrete to build a two-lane road from San Francisco to New York.
l7vKB TIL That you weigh less the closer you are to the equator, and more the closer you are to the poles
9wpEr TIL: That in 1942 Julia Child, a well-known celebrity chef, was hired by the OSS which later became the CIA.