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TIL Surya Bonaly landed a back flip on one foot during the 1998 Nagano Winter Olympics

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oBLWE TIL Between 1951 and his death in 1985, Yul Brynner gave 4,625 performances as the King of Siam in “The King and I” on stage, which at the time was a Broadway record for a single role. He is also one of only nine people to win a Tony and an Oscar for the same role.
V5WZ TIL in 1942 a British forest guard in India made an alarming discovery. Some 16,000 feet above sea level, at the bottom of a small valley, was a frozen lake absolutely full of skeletons.
pYGQO TIL Salvia Divinorum, a plant in the Mint family, produces the most potent naturally occurring hallucinogen by mass. The most intense peak is reached in roughly a minute & lasts for 1–5 minutes. Users usually return to a sense of the everyday & familiar, then to baseline, after about 15-20 minutes.
rNey1 TIL 104 elevators operate in the Willis Tower, which require 80 miles of elevator cable. This includes 16 double-decker elevators. Some of the elevators are among the fastest in the world, capable of speeds up to 1,600 feet per minute (18 mph).
WD58 TIL each dollar spent on prison education reduces incarceration costs by $4 to $5 during the first three years after a prisoner is released.