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TIL a woman had a heart attack on a plane, when the stewardess asked if there was a doctor on board, 15 stood up, they were on their way to a cardiology conference.

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m1m5o TIL the pajamas that we wear today actually have a story behind it. Because during World War I air raids in England, people began donning pajamas rather than nightgowns so they would be ready to sprint outside in broad daylight and still would look presentable.
4ke8w TIL the most densely populated megacity is Manila, Philippines with over 41,000 people per square km - nearly four times as dense as New York City.
8eBVG TIL The Exorcist was based on a real story and that someone still lives in the St. Louis house where it happened
4kNZX TIL of one of the worst maritime disasters in US history,the explosion and sinking of the steamboat Sultana. Designed to carry 376, 2500 civil war veterans crowded the decks, desperate to get home. It was completely overshadowed by the death of Lincoln’s assassin, John Wilkes Booth, a day earlier.
WQ4X TIL that from 1904 to 1925, a cartoon called “Dream of the Rarebit Fiend” ran in a New York paper. It featured bizarre nightmares, and among other things pioneered the idea of giant characters destroying a city. It has been called “perhaps the most bizarre newspaper feature in American history”.