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

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e0Ngk TIL that Founding Father John Adams would turn down invitations to July 4 celebrations, believing that July 2 (the date the Continental Congress voted for American independence) was the correct date to celebrate Independence Day.
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