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TIL in 2008, a single basketball shot may have saved hundreds of lives. Alabama player Mykal Riley made a 3-point-shot that pushed the game into overtime minutes before an EF-2 Tornado passed by. If he had missed that shot, hundreds of fans could have been in the parking lot when the tornado hit.

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JYWK8 TIL the Dalai Lama released a spoken word album filled with mantras and new age music titled Inner World, earlier this month
wL7o8 TIL that British actress Emilia Clarke has survived two brain aneurysms and founded a charity called SameYou which helps provide treatment to people recovering from a brain injury or stroke
9MMp TIL a way to check if you’re in a Lucid dream is to read some text whilst dreaming. The words will either appear illegible, or if you look away then re-read the text, the words will have changed. (Section B.4.a. of link)
XLaX TIL that an asthmatic boy died in a severe asthma attack because the school forbid asthma inhalers; while the boy was dying, the inhalers sat in a safe at the principal’s office.
ep41J TIL comedian Mel Brooks "secretly" produced several dramatic films including The Elephant Man (1980) and The Fly (1986), and deliberately kept his name out of the credits to avoid mischaracterizing the films as comedies