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TIL in an online video skeptic James Randi overdosed on homeopathic drugs to test if the drugs were real. He suffered no side effects.

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xVJB5 TIL of Northwest Airlines Flight 188. The pilots got distracted and overflew their destination by 150 miles.
8aX5K TIL that only 15% of Americans can read at a University Bachelor’s degree level, with most people reading at a 7th to 8th grade level.
x65K0 TIL there is a person in India with the first name Rickspringfield.
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x6LJw TIL That In 1996 during an SAS training exercise 21 year old Bear Grylls broke his back after falling from 16,000 feet due to a torn parachute. 2 years later he climbed Mt. Everest becoming the youngest Briton to reach the world's highest peak at the time.