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TIL In 1966 a relatively unknown young American musician asked to get on stage with Cream and THE guitar God Eric Clapton. He played the song Killing Floor, which Clapton had always said was too difficult to play live. That man was Jimi Hendrix and that became known as "The day Hendrix killed God."

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4e65 TIL Bahia Bakari, a 12 year old French girl, was the sole survivor of an Airbus A310 crash near Comoros that killed 152 people. She could barely swim and had no life vest, but clung to a piece of aircraft wreckage for over 9 hours before being rescued.
XKoP TIL That while the two cities border each other, El Paso, TX is one of the safest large cities in the US and Juarez, Mexico is one of the most dangerous cities in the world.
vP1Bj TIL Massachusetts has the lowest rate of road fatalities by population and per mile of any state
E1Kyp TIL in one study that took place in front of an escalator and a parallel staircase, the placement of a motivational poster that promoted using the stairs, doubled the amount of stair use. After removal of the poster, the effect gradually decreased back to zero.
GYPYN TIL of Hogan Sisters, conjoined twins who share a brain therefore they can control each others limbs, see from each others eyes and and know what other twin is thinking about