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TIL Stephen Hilder died during a 3-person team skydive after his main and reserve parachutes failed. The investigation into his death is "unique in British crime history" as it revealed expert-level tampering with both parachutes, but failed to determine whether the incident was murder or suicide.

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8e7KL TIL That Artic Explorer Peter Freuchen was trapped under an Avalanche while on an Expedition. He escaped from certain death by fashioning a shiv out of his own feces and dug his way out.
vD9j TIL that Silbury Hill, a man-made structure almost as old as the Great Pyramid, but built in Britain, covers an enormous area equal to more than four football fields. But historians are still not sure about its purpose.
ADgvn TIL that medical errors are the third leading cause of death in the US after cardiac and respiratory illness.
m1XAv TIL It is illegal to be drunk in a Pub in the UK.
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