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TIL on Black Friday in 2008 a Walmart worker, Jdimytai Damour, was trampled to death trying to hold back shoppers from storming in.

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PYeOJ TIL there has not been a single occurrence of a wild killer whale killing a human
5YWVB TIL Grapefruits grow in clusters like grapes, hence their name.
6ZPQ TIL that a “get out of jail free card” was a real thing in 1567 England; a lottery to raise money for the navy promised winners “freedom from arrest” for all but the most serious crimes.
awkkM TIL that Vesna Vulović, a former flight attendant, holds the world record for surviving the longest free fall without a parachute (10.1 kilometers). Following the plane crash (of which she was the sole survivor), she was willing to resume working flights, however the airline gave her a desk job.
VaPZ TIL JRR Tolkien was responsible for many W word definitions we have today in the Oxford English Dictionary