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TIL that a BA pilot named Tim Lancaster in 1990 was sucked out of the cockpit. His crew held on to him. Lancaster lived to tell the tale.

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VB0XD TIL that three years after winning gold at the 2004 Olympics, wrestler Rulon Gardner and two friends’ plane crashed into Lake Powell Utah. The three men swam an hour to the shore through 44F (7C) degree water to the shore and waited all night without shelter for rescue. All three men survived.
grLG4 TIL about James Croll, a real life Good Will Hunting, who used his library access while working as a janitor at Andersonian University to teach himself physics and astronomy, and then published a revolutionary theory explaining the negative feedback loop that causes ice ages.
l7P6N TIL that “smart” bullets, precision-guided firearm bullets that can alter course and accurately correct their path to a target, exist. They have been in development since as early as 2008 by DARPA and have been fire-tested successfully
j694v TIL there's a telescope in Texas that was shot 7 times 50 years ago and it still works at 99% capacity
lEl7 TIL that the average American woman weighs too much to use birth control effectively.