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TIL that there are over 100 tribes around the world who reject contact with the outside world.

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QJAre TIL that Lt. Pham Quang Khiem managed to escape South Vietnam in April 1975 with 53 relatives and friends by stealing a C-130a and flying to Singapore. They were later flown to Guam and then the US, where Pham became a pilot for US Airways. The C-130a is currently at the National Warplane Museum.
xynD TIL five men agreed to stand directly under an exploding nuclear bomb.. All of them walked away unscathed.
7eEX TIL a man peed his way out of an avalanche
EbDo TIL The Malaysian pen-tailed tree shrew subsists on a diet roughly equivalent to 100% beer, drinking the fermented nectar of the flower buds of the bertam plant. This nectar can reach up to 3.8% alcohol content. Despite this, they don’t appear to get drunk.
bRp TIL that Woody Allen has used the same typewriter for 50 years to write everything he’s done.