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TIL the Water Speed Record has an 85% fatality rate in people attempting to break it.

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JYBNQ TIL that Millennium Tower, a San Francisco high-rise housing more than 400 luxury condos, is sinking at a rate of 2 inches per year and leaning. The foundation wasn't anchored to bed rock, but sand, making it susceptible to further damage from soil liquefaction during a powerful earthquake.
P17Z TIL if too many pistachios are shipped in a single container, they will self-heat and experience spontaneous combustion.
wLXk6 TIL Israel merged the front half of a damaged rare 2 seat F-15 with the back half of an obsolete retired single seat F15. When they asked Boeing for advice Boeing never responded thinking the Israeli air force was joking.
Z8GkQ TIL For more than 50 years last century, Chicago Public High Schools required boys to swim naked.
74AL TIL New York police officers used to carry an 11 inch club during the day, and a 26 inch club at night, when things were more dangerous. This is the origin of the term nightstick