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TIL that 95% of people who experience a plane crash actually survive

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Meke8 TIL in one of Robin William’s last films, The Angriest Man in Brooklyn, his character Henry stated that his tombstone would read "1951-2014”. Coincidentally, Robin Williams was born in 1951, and died in 2014.
kOmNW TIL that a glass ball will bounce higher than a rubber ball!
09OM TIL that Johann Sebastian Bach wrote a mini-opera about coffee addiction
R55GQ TIL The Babcock father and son team constructed the first solar magnetograph, which allowed them to measure the general magnetic field of the sun. The son, Horace Babcock, was able to discover magnetic fields in more distant stars with his own invention
p8P44 TIL: 100 crew members of the nuclear submarine USS Scorpion were scheduled to make its 1968 deployment. One sailor refused to go citing the sub’s dire need of maintenance. 99 sailors were killed when the sub sank in the Atlantic.