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wdK8 TIL a man jumped from a burning plane at 18,000ft without a parachute and survived with a sprained leg. His crew-mates all chanced a crash landing and died.
epQdJ TIL Ricardo Abad Martínez holds the world record for most consecutive marathons run on consecutive days with 607. He also ran all of these marathons even though he still worked his factory job 8 hours a day.
OG6WY TIL that JAXA (Japanese NASA) tests astronaut candidates by making them fold a thousand origami cranes. This helps determine how the person deals with boring, repetitive tasks and time constraints.
e7Z5 TIL For a period of thirty years a man weighed everything he ate and drank, as well as all of his waste, in order to study metabolism
N7reP TIL almost all coins used in Israel today are based on ancient designs found in archeological digs. The Bank of Israel actually mints coins that are designed to look like ancient Israeli coins from antiquity.