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TIL that one window washer around the world falls to his/her death every day

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Br99k TIL A woman survived falling over 33,333ft after a bomb exploded on the plane. She holds the Guinness Book of Worlds Records for Highest Fall Survived Without a Parachute.
bvX9 TIL In the Bulgarian Balkan is an abandoned socialist monument that looks like a UFO.
1Re7 TIL Pink has no corresponding wavelength, it’s our brains filling in the gap between ultra violet and infra red light in the color spectrum. Put simply, pink is what you get when you remove the color green from white light.
QLe6 TIL Most tropical fruits, avocado, papaya, durian, were eaten by animals that no longer exist and should, evolutionarily, also be extinct
dDYE7 TIL an embryo conceived in 1992 was thawed and resulted in the successful birth of twins 30 years later