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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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yJLw TIL that in the 50’s one of the major attractions at Las Vegas was watching atomic bomb tests nearby. For a time Vegas was marketed as ‘Atomic City.’
16vMD TIL the man who wrote/sang the theme song to "The Mary Tyler Moore Show" was 1 of Buddy Holly's original "Crickets," wrote "I Fought The Law," and was a pallbearer for Buddy: Sony Curtis
BgM1d TIL that the odds against Buster Douglas were 42:1, on the night in February 1990 that he KO’ed Mike Tyson.
wLGm1 TIL Russell Brand was originally a host for MTV UK but was fired for arriving at work dressed as Osama bin Laden the day after 9/11 and taking his drug dealer to the studio.
9eBQ TIL that after David Bowie released his album “Low”, Nick Lowe responded by releasing an EP called “Bowi”.