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TIL that drinking heavy water and alcohol together cancels out the vertigo. If not heavy water, then glycerol works too.

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dDjKB TIL that Adrian Carton de Wiart fought in 6 wars, including WW1 & WW2. He survived two plane crashes and being shot several times. He also tunnelled out of a POW camp, tore off his own fingers when amputation was declined, and described his WW1 experience with "Frankly, I had enjoyed the war."
R7RY9 TIL whilst filming the movie Entebbe, about a plane being hijacked, a plane was hijacked and landed at the airport on the day of the filming. They then filmed the real hostages being released and edited it into the movie. The producer called it a "blessing from the sky on a day of bad acting."
PY4KG TIL Queen Elizabeth II is an admiral of the Great Navy of Nebraska, the only triply landlocked state of the USA.
4XjRR TIL that the Nazis also had a special Concentration Camp for "difficult" girls between 16 and 21. Many of them were classified as criminals only because they had premarital sex or were lesbians. From 1942 until 1945 more than 1200 girls were kept there and many of them did not survive.
ZloY TIL Africa’s tallest apartment complex has a dark central void space, its first 3 stories filled up with accumulated garbage - it has also “developed a reputation for defenestrations – accidents, suicides and otherwise.”