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TIL a lawyer fell 24 stories to his death after showing off for co-worker. To prove the glass window was unbreakable he would run and hurl himself at it. It worked every time but once.

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5OPD TIL Cinderella’s Castle at the Magic Kingdom uses a technique known as forced perspective, meaning it gets smaller as it gets taller, giving it the appearance of being much bigger than it really is.
GY7B5 TIL JFK’s daughter was secretly gifted the puppy of the first Russian dog in space as part of a series of secret daily correspondence between JFK and Khrushchev. The dog then proceeded to bite every Kennedy family member.
eplog TIL that in 1940, after the German Luftwaffe bombed Buckingham Palace during the Blitz, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother refused to leave the King and evacuate to Canada with her children, saying - "I am almost glad we have been bombed. Now I feel I can look the East End in the face."
D1v1V TIL Mark Twain wrote an essay entitled Concerning the Jews. He claimed Jews didn't do their part of fighting in America's military. In response, the War Department revealed that Jewish Americans were represented in the military in a larger percentage than their share of the population.
Z89YY TIL in 1975, a Soviet naval officer led a mutiny onboard a frigate with the aim of toppling the government of Brezhnev. It failed after a standoff with half of the Soviet Baltic fleet, but an article about it inspired an insurance salesman named Tom Clancy to write his book, The Hunt for Red October