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TIL that the first man to survive going down Niagara Falls in a barrel died after slipping on an orange peel.

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wLpkE TIL that British Member of Parliament, Arnold Wilson, joined the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve in October 1939. He stated that "I have no desire to shelter myself and live in safety behind the ramparts of the bodies of millions of our young men."
nWGPW TIL the term "big bang" has been argued to be a misnomer and there was an international competition to find a more suitable alternative to the model. However, the judges concluded that none was apt enough to replace it and said "like it or not, we are stuck with "big bang.""
dvd8 TIL Just 1 gram of DNA is theoretically capable of holding 455 exabytes – enough for all the data held by Google, Facebook and every other major tech company, with room to spare
X40r TIL That Mel Brooks almost died on the set of ‘Spaceballs’ due to Toxic Paint.
OLR7 TIL The atoms that make up your body are mostly empty space, and if you lost all your empty atomic space, your body would fit into a cube less than 1/500th of a centimetre on each side.