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TIL there is a mile-long zipline in Hoonah, Alaska, that starts 1,300ft above sea level and reaches speeds of up to 60mph.

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N901 TIL Famed dentist Painless Parker (who wore a necklace of teeth) & his Dental Circus lured naive patients by promising that the 50c extraction would be painless, or he’d pay $5. Screams of agony were drowned by a brass band while the audience was distracted, enjoying contortionists & dancing women.
rR7le TIL "Wagyu beef" just means "Japanese beef beef".
Aywl TIL there are Silent Discos out there, where there can be up to three different DJs spinning music at the same time, and everyone in the club can listen to any of the DJs through headphones. Observers without headphones would see a bunch of people dancing to silence.
4XLj6 TIL the guy from the My Pillow commercials was a crack addict who thought of the idea to start a pillow company while hgh on a crack binge and woke up to the word "My Pillow" written all over the walls of his kitchen... then he actually followed through with the idea and eventually got sober.
1a66D TIL Breaking Bad's popularity coincided with a 51% increase in methamphetamine use in Germany, and a 400% increase in meth smuggling attempts in Britain