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TIL scuba divers dive backwards to keep boats stable

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VDgm TIL That the Wall album is technically a loop that goes on forever, because the first and last words of the first and last songs come together to make the sentence “Isn’t this…where we came in?,” thus restarting the entire album.
vPO14 TIL no dummies were used in the stunt heavy movie "Hot Rod" and in the first scene, a stuntman breaks his femur in the failed jump
x60Gw TIL Ireland holds the world’s highest frequency (~10–11%) of C282Y, a gene variant in hereditary hemochromatosis. Historically, poor diets from poverty, heavy tea, and reliance on potatoes favored iron-boosting. Now, iron-fortified foods can cause overload, leading to harmful excess body iron levels
loDKA TIL The Roman legion of the "Legio IX Hispana", stationed in Britannia, mysteriously disappeared from surviving Roman records after around AD 120. There are no accounts on the disapperance, nor there has been any clear consensus on the matter.
YppWv TIL A&E created a list of the 100 most influential people of the last millennium and it was topped by Johannes Gutenberg, creator of the printing press