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TIL: Approximately 10,000 attended the funeral of Hawaiian musician, Israel Kamakawiwoʻole.

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d8YKB TIL South Korea’s top five family-controlled conglomerates together account for roughly half of the value in the country’s stock market
4NJa TIL there was man sentenced to death by a firing squad, he was shot 9 times and a 10th point blank in the face to ensure death. He somehow didnt die, laid still for hours pretending to be dead and when the squad left, he escaped.
R1J1 TIL that a drowning person doesn’t look like what one would expect. The Instinctive drowning response actually makes them unable to yell or call for help. The linked mini-game “Spot The Drowning Child” Illustrate this well. By knowing this, you could maybe save a life someday.
QNyAe TIL of the The Fort Worth Perfume Panic of 2009, a smell began wafting through a Fort Worth call center that someone quickly recognized as a poisonous carbon monoxide leak. 34 people were hospitalized but no gas leak was ever found. The strange odor that people were complaining about was perfume.
DVBV TIL that there is a surviving fantasy novel written in the 2nd century AD that features explorers flying to the moon, a first encounter with aliens, interplanetary war between imperialistic celestial kingdoms, and the discovery of a continent across the ocean