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TIL about the Caterpillar Club, an exclusive club for people who jump out of a failing aircraft and survive using a parachute.

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6wNm TIL Muhammad Ali Traveled to Iraq in 1990 & Rescued 15 united states citizens taken hostage by Saddam Hussein.
rNkW TIL the Doctor who claimed a link between vaccines and autism created fraudulent data for his paper and lost his medical license as a result.
ZYZB TIL that the ‘50% of marriages end in divorce’ claim is a myth; the overall rate has never exceeded 41%, has been declining from that high since the 1980s, and the divorce rate for college graduates is probably under 25%
pYW5Z TIL there's an "Old Perth" and that Perth, AU is basically "New Perth".
yQbaJ TIL Penguin Diagrams used in quantum field theory to illustrate the behavior of subatomic particles were so named because physicist John Ellis lost a bar bet playing darts and had to use the word "penguin" in his next published paper. The so-called diagrams look like the outline of a penguin.