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TIL that print book sales are rising and ebook sales are falling
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TIL Deadpool has “Medium Awareness” which means he is aware that he is a fictional character in a comic book, and is thought to be due to his mental state.
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TIL 29-yr-old Marine veteran Taylor Winston stole a truck to drive victims of the Las Vegas shooting to the hospital. He and his girlfriend made 2 trips having to pick only the most critically injured 10 - 15 people each time after helping boost others over a fence away from the shooter.
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TIL wealth and power cause brain damage that effects empathy and being able to see things from other's point of view.
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TIL about Flight 149. On 8/2/1990, the flight stopped to refuel in Kuwait, the same day Iraq invaded Kuwait. All 385 passenger and crew were taken hostage and were abused. Allegedly, the flight was allowed to fly despite warning from the Foreign Office, because it was a Trojan horse for MI6 agents.
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TIL that in 1864, two ships were wrecked on the Auckland Islands at the same time and neither group were aware of the other. One group rescued themselves by sailing to New Zealand in a homemade ship; all five survived. The other group was rescued by a passing ship and only 3 out of 25 survived.