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TIL Jimmy Buffett saved Colin Jost's Life in 2014

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jNXga TIL about the 50 Cent Party, which has nothing to do with 50 Cent
9Ynp TIL that when two Japanese pole vaulters tied for silver in the 1936 Olympics, and one was awarded the bronze, they had their medals split in half back home, and got them fused as half-silver and half-bronze in a showing of friendship.
wooX7 TIL one of Leonardo Davinci's students painted a naked version of Mona Lisa.
mQwv TIL that a cow named Cincinnati Freedom evaded police officers for 11 days after jumping a six-foot fence to escape a slaughterhouse; after finally being caught, and she was given the “key to the city” by Cincinnati’s mayor and allowed to live out her days in a NY sanctuary
mxKOy TIL the common swift has been documented to fly 10 months continuously,