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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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nGlB TIL that as part of their training, 18 month old circus elephants are chained together and made to stand still for 23 hours a day
wA6 TIL: There are Cat Cafés in Japan and Taiwan where people can pay hourly to play with cats and have drinks!
j64NN TIL of the "Order of the Occult hand," a secret society of journalists that slip the meaningless and telltale phrase "It was as if some occult hand had…" in print as an inside joke.
PYVle TIL Lawrence Fishburne, aka Morpheus from The Matrix, played a purple chaps-wearing cowboy on Pee-wees Playhouse
nkmr TIL after a Florida Highway Patrol Officer ticketed a Miami cop for driving in excess of 120MPH on his way to an off-duty job, she was relentlessly harassed by other officers, including finding out that her driver’s license info had been accessed by 88 officers from 25 agencies over three months.