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TIL that Navy members undergoing submarine escape training must yell HO HO HO as they rise to the surface to avoid collapsing their lungs from pressure change

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9lW6 TIL the web-slinging and stunts in The Amazing Spider-Man were done with real wires and stuntmen, as opposed to the CGI in the original trilogy.
ADaXn TIL China's single child policy resulted in groups of people that had never encountered genetic siblings. The notion of "sibling" was a hard one for the children to grasp - a task made more difficult by the Chinese tendency to use the term for "brother" or "sister" when talking about cousins
9YMdm TIL that when actor, Sir Christopher Lee, was just a teenager, he witnessed the guillotine execution of serial killer, Eugen Weidmann
8aX0X TIL that former Liberian President, Charles D. B. King, earned himself a spot in the Guinness Book of Records for the most fraudulent election reported in history, having won the 1927 election with 243,000 votes in a country with 15,000 registered voters.
MXb0 TIL that in 1949 an official boxing match between a bear and a man was held. The bear won.