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TIL of “Third Man Factor”, a psychological phenomenon that can occur during traumatic experiences. People report an unseen presence like a guardian angel that provides comfort or support

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a898J TIL it took 88 skydiving jumps to film the scene of James Bond jumping from an airplane without a parachute in Moonraker (1979), often getting just 3 seconds of action filmed in a jump.
0VOy TIL in 1962, Warren Buffett agreed to selling shares of a failing company for $11.50 per share. The written offer was for only $11.375, so Buffett decided to buy more of the stock, took control of the company and fired the man who made the offer.
RXMj TIL a lighthouse keeper’s cat named Tibbles is said to have single-handedly driven an entire species of wren into extinction, making the bird “the only known species on Earth to be entirely wiped out by a single being”.
Ypag7 TIL that the popular sleeping aid known as Ambien - zolpidem tartrate - was astonishingly discovered to bring back some minimally conscious patients back from a vegetative state.
Zm04 TIL You can masturbate in public is Sweden provided it’s not directed at anyone