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TIL Gordon Ramsay while filming a scene about puffin hunting fell off an 85 foot cliff into water and survived.

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OVb6 TIL A Boeing 727 aircraft was stolen out of an airport in 2003. Neither the plane, nor the two men aboard were ever found.
ep7OL TIL: An analysis of data from every Supreme Court justice from 1789 to 2006 found that when the incumbent president is of a different party than the president who appointed the justice, the justice's death-in-office odds are about tripled.
0AKL TIL there is evidence of Methane based life on Titan, a moon of Saturn.
69eRZ TIL that between 1895 and 1908 the population of the Belgian Congo declined by between 2 and 13 million due to colonial brutality and diseases caused by colonialism.
x6vOb TIL about the Personal Rescue Enclosure or "rescue ball", a 36 inches (91 cm) sphere intended to protect an astronaut in space in case they had to leave the Space Shuttle; another suited astronaut would then carry the sphere. It was developed in the early days of the Shuttle program but never flown.