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

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d8j7d TIL Sudan launched a new currency as a precautionary measure, following South Sudan's independence in 2011. It is estimated up to 2bn Sudanese pounds are in circulation in the new country, which has the potential to destabilise Sudan's economy
EVwo TIL that two brothers survived the Lusitania sinking, but became separated in the aftermath. Each sent a telegram to their father explaining that they had survived and were looking for their brother. In receiving both telegrams, their father knew both sons had survived before they knew themselves.
b9e7 TIL that many people have experienced “cryptomnesia”, which is what happens when you think you’ve come up with something original, such as an idea or a joke, but it was actually something you’d seen before and forgotten about.
neVQ9 TIL that Woody Harrelson's father, Charles Harrelson, assassinated federal judge John H. Wood Jr. in 1979, the first federal judge to be killed in the 20th century. He had also been tried for murder two other times, and convicted for one of them.
k5dm TIL Kanye West once gave his mic to a fan in a wheelchair at a concert