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TIL the second person ever to go down Niagra Falls in a barrel survived the feat. Later, he tripped on an orange peel and died.

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y0gl TIL in the 1989 season, Deion Sanders became the only person in the history of Earth to score a home run in the MLB in the same week as scoring a touchdown in the NFL. He is also the only person to have ever participated in both a World Series and the Super Bowl.
8egLX TIL that in July 1982, a mentally disturbed man named Michael Fagan entered Buckingham Palace twice and set off alarms both times (that were cleared with little investigation). The first time he encountered a maid and ended up drinking a bottle of wine. The second time, he made it to the Queen.
oRYpr TIL that the rarest mineral on Earth is kyawthuite, with only one known specimen found in Myanmar.
y0la TIL that the Illiad and the Odyssey are just two parts out of an eight-part epic, but the other six parts have been almost entirely lost to history
pMdZ TIL ancient Egyptian workmen who dug the pharaohs’ tombs got paid sick leave, according to 3000 year-old records