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

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V0jQ TIL there’s a computer marketed to the Amish. It has no Internet, no video, no music.
awRZN TIL In 2009 the FDA required General Mills to either register Cheerios as a drug or change their labels claiming the cereal lowerd cholesterol. GM revealed the labeling had been approved by the FDA and the investigation was closed in 2012.
a4BM TIL there are pictures of Knights fighting Snails in old Medieval manuscripts - and nobody knows why
p8bYA TIL that Minoru Yamasaki, the architect who designed the original World Trade Center towers had a fear of heights. This fear influenced the design of the buildings which is why the window columns were only 18 inches apart.
6EAKJ TIL the Statue of Liberty was originally a dull copper color, but after 20 years it oxidized and was covered in green petina. Congress wanted to paint away the corrosion, but the Army Corps of Engineers concluded it "softened the outlines of the Statue and made it beautiful."