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TIL: John Stapp withstood 46.2 G forces in 1947, the most any human has ever been subject to and survive.

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B9JW TIL of the Forty Elephants, or Forty Thieves; an all-female shoplifting ring that operated in London from the 1870s to the 1950s.
oBnNr TIL Humans are deuterostomes, which means we all begins as buttholes.
mx00O TIL that the second officer of the Titanic stayed onboard till the end and was trapped underwater until a boiler explosion set him free. Later, he volunteered in WW2 and helped evacuate over 120 men from Dunkirk
1aGr TIL humans were almost certainly deep-sea fishing over 42,000 years ago.
x6l4k TIL of the Sable Island Horse, a wild species found only on a low lying sandbar in the Atlantic off the cost of Nova Scotia. Released on Sable Island in the 1700s, they have become their own species over time. About 500 horses currently exist and are now legally protected by the Canadian government