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TIL Ed McGivern was able to fire five shots at five yards into a silver dollar in 45/100ths of a second, shoot six hand-thrown clays, shoot a dime on the fly and that his Guinness world record for “The greatest rapid-fire feat” still stands (1932).

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NXv6J TIL that no US company can ever perfectly recreate the taste of Coca Cola as one of the ingredients in it is extract from the Coca leaf. Since cocaine is made from the plant only one company in the US can import it - Stepan’s Company. Their only customer is Coca Cola.
nA1b TIL a 21 year old college student, Maura Murray, mysteriously vanished in Feb 2004 after she wrecked and abandoned her car in the New Hampshire White Mountain area. Only 3 minutes passed between being last seen and an office arriving to find she was gone. She has never been found or heard from since
GYWBE TIL that back in May 2016, in order to show the absurdities of software EULAs, the Norwegian Consumer Council did a live, word-by-word, non-stop reading of all of Apples and 3rd party EULAs on an "average" iPhone. It took them over 32 hours.
wogP1 TIL: 1995 Daegu gas explosion in S.Korea, over 100 people were launched into the air, rained down and crushed by debris. First responders described flattened, disfigured bodies, some stretched to nearly double their original size from the impact. The disaster remains relatively unknown today.
pmGG TIL in 1999, Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, and Bob Odenkirk all appeared in the television show “3rd Rock from the Sun.”