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TIL in 1992, a man fell to his death at the Grand Canyon while failing to pretend to fall off the railing.

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MYrm Today i learned, there is a river in china so polluted it has turned red.
0wgWA TIL that after being denied access to one and with no public knowledge about its architecture, India built its first supercomputer in just 3 years which then became the second fastest supercomputer at the time.
kJ15d TIL Elvis Presley was a natural blonde who used to dye his hair black.
V0Mk TIL Drew Carey tried to kill himself when he was 18 in Las Vegas. He was homeless, was selling his plasma for $40, and looked for spare change to buy boxed macaroni and cheese. “All I had was water, no butter. That is some bad macaroni and cheese.”
kO5P7 TIL Viking smiths used the bones of their dead ancestors and slain animals to strengthen their swords, hoping to transfer the spirit into their blades. This DID strengthen their swords though because the carbon in bones combined with iron led to the formation of a primitive form of steel.