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TIL Kansas is scientifically proven to be flatter than a pancake

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4X0YJ TIL about the dangerous Onbashira Festival, which involves participants to ride on sixteen enormous 50-foot/15-meter, 10-ton/9,000-kg logs down steep mountains among other difficult terrains in a ceremony known as Kiotoshi, that takes place in Nagano, Japan. Injury and fatal incidents are frequent.
dwpZ TIL That a woman saved a little boys life giving him CPR after being hit in the chest with a baseball bat. 7 Years later that very same boy saved her from choking to death giving her the heimlich maneuver.
WX78 TIL NASA use’s the film Armageddon as training. New recruits have to find as many inaccuracies as possible. There are 168, more than 1 per minute.
mxo8R TIL Also known as Black Death, Henry Johnson was an African American hero. Despite being stabbed, shot, and hit with grenade shrapnel totaling 21 severe injuries, he managed to kill/injure 24 German soldiers and rescued a member of his unit.
Z8MWB TIL that as comedian Sam Kinison lay dying from injuries sustained from a drunk driver he began saying, to no one in particular, "I don’t want to die. I don’t want to die." He paused as if listening, then said,"But why?" He paused once more, saying, "Okay, okay, okay," and peacefully passing away.