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TIL of Joan Murray who survived an 80 mph skydiving fall, thanks to landing on a mound of fire ants, who's bites are believed to have given her a rush of adrenaline which kept her heart beating.

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wLKR8 TIL of sculptor Anna Coleman Ladd who created customized prosthetic masks to be worn by men who had been badly disfigured in World War I and was knighted for her work by the French Government.
oBBJR TIL The tetragrammaton is the Biblical name of the God of Israel.
VMypB TIL That Berlin was split into four zones, after WWII, but the city remained completely enclosed in the Soviet Russian Zone of Germany. Access for the three other countries (USA, Britain + France) was, for a time, by plane over hostile territory.
b9Vg7 TIL American actor Martin Lawrence was born in Germany. He was named after Martin Luther King, Jr. and John Fitzgerald Kennedy. He has a lifetime ban from Saturday Night Live.
KOXw6 TIL that the caps for PETE bottles (water and soda bottle containers) are made from a type of plastic which is not recyclable.