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TIL most skydiving parachutes have a computer failsafe that will automatically deploy the chute at a preset elevation or time

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VBXe4 TIL that Ruhollah Khomeini's only written message to a foreign leader was a letter to Mikhail Gorbachev, telling him that communism was doomed and suggesting that Gorbachev convert to Islam.
X0nJ6 TIL in 1993 Donald Wyman amputated his left leg below the knee with a pocket knife after it got stuck under a large tree during a logging accident where he bled profusely for an hour & feared he'd die. However, he was even able to keep his leg after firefighters retrieved it & surgeons reattached it
b6D4 TIL that Sofia Vergara posed Topless for GQ Mexico
woXkM TIL there’s a dish called Engagement Chicken. According to legend, a fashion editor shared it with her assistant, who made it for her boyfriend. It was so good that he proposed. She shared the recipe with other colleagues and they all ended up engaged.
WDVX TIL that even if all non-violent drug offenders were released from federal and state prisons the United States would still have the highest incarceration rate in the world