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TIL scuba divers dive backwards to keep boats stable

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8anXG TIL: a “fair” coin toss doesn’t truly have a 50/50 chance of landing on either side, but rather a 51% chance of showing the side originally facing up, according to a 2004 Stanford study on angular dynamics
9bbD TIL that areas where it is common for people to live over 100 years are known as “Blue Zones”. There are 5 on Earth: Sardinia, Italy; Okinawa, Japan; Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica; Loma Linda, California; and Icaria, Greece
wodQJ TIL that not everyone hears inside themselves. The condition of loudly hearing your own breathing, voice, and bodily functions is called Eustachian Tube Dysfunction.
6EdEQ TIL of Daphne Caruana Galizia, an investigative journalist from Malta who reported on government corruption and money-laundering. She died in a car bomb attack close to her home on 16 October 2017, and her last words were "There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate."
P1p4w TIL that a professional wrestling pay-per-view event jointly produced by Japan and the United States was held in Pyongyang, North Korea in 1995. It was called "Collision in Korea", and holds the record for the largest attendance of a pro wrestling event in history