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TIL the froghopper holds the record for highest recorded jump by an insect at 70 cm (28 in). The rough human equivalent is a 6-ft man jumping 600-ft in a single bound. When a froghopper jumps, it endures a G-force of more than 414 times its own weight, whereas, astronauts endure a G-force of 6 or 7.

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D1Wg TIL on August 20th, 1191, during the Third Crusade, Richard the Lionhearted’s Christian Army had the Muslim-held city of Acre surrounded. When the besieged could not meet the gold payment for terms of surrender, Richard’s army slaughtered 3000+ bound prisoners in full view of the opposing army.
yX08 TIL that when Steven Spielberg was to be awarded his honorary doctorate from USC’s Cinematic Arts school, he agreed to accept only if it was personally signed by the admissions officer who rejected him for an average “C” grade when he applied there as an aspiring film student. It was.
wo6RM TIL The Mediterranean Race (or 'Mediterranid Race') is an obsolete racial classification of humans based on the now-disproven theory of biological race. From the late 19th to mid-20th Centuries, it was widely believed that Mediterranean people were a specific sub-race of the Caucasian race...
gZOD TIL that on 9/11 some jet fighters took to the air without live ammunition, knowing that to prevent the hijackers from striking their intended targets, the pilots might have to intercept and crash their fighters into the hijacked planes, ejecting at the last moment.
nekmo TIL former actor Jake Lloyd, the man who played young Anakin in The Phantom Menace, was bullied so much for his role he quit acting and destroyed his Star Wars merch. Later he would be arrested for reckless driving without a license and has been transferred to a psych facility for schizophrenia.