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TIL 14 people in NYC died in a flash flood in 2021, with 11 drowning in basement apartments

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OOLL TIL that out of 262 Blue Angels pilots, 26 have been killed during training or show accidents, giving the job a 10% fatality rate.
8eMkX TIL of the Corsican Conflict a currently ongoing war over Corsican independence that started in 1977 and has killed over 150 people
AD5Rx TIL that in 2014, golfer Gus Andreone hit the eighth hole-in-one of his career at the age of 103
7Wk7 TIL a soccer team in Madagascar in a sign of protest spent an entire match scoring own goals on themselves. The game ended 149-0.
VM0gZ Til in 1987 a North Korean spy blew up a plane,killing 115 people. She was sentenced to death, then pardoned, and finally married one of her interrogators—they now have two children together.