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TIL that helicopters don’t just fall like a rock if the engine fails, they can perform something called “autorotation,” where the rotor blades keep spinning due to air rushing up through them as the helicopter falls

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BaPr TIL the last man executed by electric chair in the U.S. was removed from the death penalty on appeal. Thinking this made him immune, he boasted of his crimes, supplying evidence which allowed him to be re-convicted and then executed.
Rmg9 TIL Beatle George Harrison survived a brutal stabbing when his wife fended off an intruder with a fireplace poker and lamp. Harrison suffered a punctured lung and over forty stab wounds.
kJky5 TIL There is no laundry facility on the International Space Station (ISS). Astronauts typically wear their clothes until they are too dirty and then discard them. These clothes are placed in a cargo ship that will eventually burn up upon re-entering Earth’s atmosphere.
PYyQe TIL that during the tablecloth scene from the Grinch, Jim Carrey was supposed to pull everything off of the table, but he accidentally pulled the tablecloth clean off without knocking anything over, so he went back and improvised knocking everything down.
0wxlL TIL The bacteria that is responsible for the smell of blue cheese is the same one that is responsible for foot and other human body odours.