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TIL, Larry Walters rode a lawn chair attached to helium balloons to 16,000 feet and using a pellet gun, he controlled his descent by firing the gun at the balloons, popping them one by one.

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oRAZR TIL that while creating "Blue Monday", New Order's Bernard Sumner and Stephen Morris learned to use their Emulator 1 sampler by recording their own flatulence.
78MXZ TIL in 2007, a woman successfully appealed her case after being sentenced for breastfeeding her infant while driving on the Ohio Turnpike because her car was registered in Michigan and the judge ruled that the state law forbidding breastfeeding while driving only applied to cars registered in Ohio.
9bdr TIL of a man named Simon Bunce who was arrested for buying child porn online, and lost his job and family over it, only to be revealed that someone in Indonesia hacked his credit card.
Ln5p TIL That the Ichneumonidae, a species of wasp that laid it’s young in a live host, made Charles Darwin lose faith in a “benevolent God”
R7oK6 TIL A Kansas animal hospital helped a dog who had 30 to 40 Asian beetles living on the roof of its mouth. Asian beetles secrete a sticky substance which allows them to latch onto a surface, like the roof of a dog's mouth. They cause ulcers on the tongue and mouth and have a very painful bite.