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TIL that there's a skydiving center in California where 28 people have died since 1985. It's still open.

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N7XRP TIL that in 1980, nuclear physicist Glenn Seaborg transmuted several thousand atoms of bismuth into gold at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. Seaborg's technique would have been far too expensive to enable routine manufacturing of gold, but his work was close to the mythical Philosopher's Stone.
x7nw TIL Kinder Morgan believes oil spills are good for the economy because it creates jobs to clean it up.
KGdB TIL The real name of the talking paperclip in Microsoft XP was Clippit, not Clippy.
m4lx TIL That Oda Nobunaga was so disrespectful at his own father’s funeral that one of his mentors committed seppuku
n8X9 TIL Michael Cera played the voice of “Brother Bear” in the children show “The Berenstain Bears.”