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TIL that mid-level managers rather than those at the bottom of the corporate hierarchy, suffered the most from depression

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VMkXm TIL of William Rankin, a fighter pilot who survived ejecting into a thunderstorm. He encountered very low temperature, frostbite, massive wind and lightning, severe decompression, and nearly drowned from breathing in rain water. Overall, he was in the cloud for more than 40 minutes.
d8yn7 TIL In Britain, drivers can be fined up to £5,000 if they are caught driving through a puddle which causes a pedestrian to be splashed.
0waM1 TIL IHunch is the name for a spinal issue caused by looking down at a phone or laptop for too long
N755P TIL the giant crystal cave in Mexico, with crystals weighing up to 50 tonnes, had an average of 100% humidity and 58° C temperature. This meant that the coldest place in the cave was the lungs, so water would condense in it and exposure for over 10 minutes would lead to death by drowning.
6oel TIL nearly 200 years before turducken became popular, there was the Rôti Sans Pareil: a bustard stuffed with a turkey-goose-pheasant-chicken-duck-guinea fowl-teal-woodcock-partridge-plover-lapwing-quail-thrush-lark-ortolan-bunting and garden warbler, the last being just big enough to hold an olive.