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TIL: An Indian will spend one-fifth of this life’s earning on a wedding ceremony

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85Zb TIL an airplane crashed into the Empire State Building in 1945. Among other damage, plane parts severed the cables for an elevator and the woman inside fell over 70 stories. She lived and holds the world record for the longest survived elevator fall.
4x4R TIL that Lego (unknowingly) sponsored a Polish artist to make something out of Legos, and it turned out to be a 7 kit Auschwitz set.
WanB TIL: TIL Zach Galifianakis, Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim were commissioned by Absolut Vodka. They were told they could do anything they wanted as long as they mentioned the product.
P181V TIL about Saturday Night Palsy (named after partying on Saturday nights), which is when nerves are compressed and muscle function is lost due to sleeping in an unnatural position and being too drunk to adjust yourself. Severe cases have a low chance of full recovery.
WmRd TIL that we visited the moon before wheeled luggage was invented