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TIL that Air Marshal David Grahame Donald once fell from his airplane while attempting a new maneuver and miraculously the plane continued the loop o ly for him to land on the wing and pull himself back into the cockpit.

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8aEP4 TIL The Price Is Right rigs the plinko game for promotional ads using fishing line so that the chip lands in the $10,000 slot. The wire was mistakenly left in place and a contestant dropped 3 consecutive chips before it was noticed. She was allowed to keep the money.
9YVkG TIL that the 2015 Waco biker shootout, which left 9 dead and led to the arrest of 177 bikers on RICO and murder charges each with $1 million bail, resulted in zero convictions after only one trial and all other charges were dropped.
7rQLb TIL anteaters are incapable of producing their own digestive acids. They instead use formic acid found in the stinging venom of the ants they eat, which essentially means the ants are dissolved in their own acid.
woYE TIL that Nuclear War during the Cuban Missile Crisis was averted by the action of a single Soviet officer.
8axo8 TIL of Clive Palmer. An Australian billionaire who has attempted to build the Titanic II once before, failed and is now trying again. He has also built an animatronic dinosaur park on a golf course in Australia.