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TIL of Henry "Hang-On Hank" Dempsey, who accidentally ended outside of a plane and hung on until his co-pilot landed the plane.

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78y0r TIL the film "Little Giants" was inspired by a McDonald's Super Bowl ad in 1992. Steven Spielberg saw it on TV and immediately contacted the creators of the ad, hiring them to write it into a feature film saying "I want that commercial made into a movie. I want my 'Home Alone.'"
w81P TIL that even though parody is protected by the First Amendment, Weird Al Yankovic always asks artists for permission, as a courtesy.
QQEe TIL if you microwave a sliced grape, it can explode in a fireball of super-heated plasma.
R7rXj TIL That IQ can decrease by an average of 13% when people are more stressed
awOpy TIL electrum is a naturally occurring alloy of gold and silver. It was used as early as the third millennium BCE in Egypt, as an exterior coating to the pyramidions atop pyramids and obelisks. The first metal coins ever made were of electrum and for a few decades, the Nobel Prize medals were too.