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TIL of the "Ghost Blimp" that floated into Daly, CA with all parachutes and working equipment on board and no sign of the crew

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neQnY TIL: The Wilhem Scream and The Purple People Eater song were both recorded by the same man - Sheb Wooley
eyQL TIL eating mangoes prior to smoking marijuana increases it’s effects by making the high stronger and last longer.
Z97Y TIL a man endured Mengele removing a kidney without anaesthesia and survived Auschwitz because he was the 201st person in line for a 200-person gas chamber.
9wKoB TIL that Yuma High School’s mascot is the Criminal because the first school building was the old Yuma Territorial Prison.
7rxRP TIL of the 6/29/12 Derecho. A derecho is a single storm that travels over 250 miles, in sequence, with at least three instances of 75mph+ winds. This one started near Chicago at 2pm and traveled all the way to the east coast by midnight on the same day.