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k8Xd TIL a man died while shooting a saguaro cactus with a shotgun when a 4 foot long arm he shot off fell on top of him.
WX78 TIL NASA use’s the film Armageddon as training. New recruits have to find as many inaccuracies as possible. There are 168, more than 1 per minute.
86R4 TIL that in 1969 a writer committed suicide after failing to publish his novel. In 1981 said novel won a Pulitzer.
D1WQr TIL that at 36 letters, the second longest word in the English language is Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, which ironically enough means the fear of long words.
Wk4RY TIL: Commerical Flight Attendants and Pilots are 4x more likely to get cancer in their lifetime, because of the time they spend flying, with a thinner atmosphere and more solar particles. They recive 3x more radiation a year than a nuclear plant employee