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TIL There was an amusement park in Vernon, NJ that was so unsafe being injured was considered part of the experience. The Alpine Slide alone produced 14 broken bones, 26 head injuries, and 1 fatality.

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Z8kZD TIL in 1824, Thomas Jefferson introduced legislature for the United States to end slavery by purchasing all slave children, train them for various skills and crafts, and then send them to the Dominican Republic.
OG804 TIL 51-year-old electrician Mike McDermott broke the odds of 1 in 283 billion by winning the lotto TWICE in one year, doing it both times using the same numbers!
Z8NyD TIL that a German Court has set a precedent ordering a man to delete all nude pictures of his ex partner, even though these pictures had been taken consensually during their relationship.
WLgd TIL RAS syndrome (Redundant Acronym Syndrome syndrome) is when an acronym has a repeating word commonly placed after it. Eg: RAS syndrome
W7d68 TIL Kenny Bräck crashed at Texas Motor Speedway in 2003 where he recorded the highest horizontal g-force ever survived by a human being at 214 g