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TIL that in 2008, Blink 182 drummer Travis Barker survived a plane crash in which four of the six passengers were killed

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8eyJL TIL In North America, kingfishers fish. But in tropical regions of Asia, Africa, and Australia, most of the roughly 90 species of kingfishers don't “fish.” They hunt in woodlands, where the smaller ones, like the four-inch Pygmy Kingfisher, eat grasshoppers and centipedes.
jNlEv TIL that there is an alive 'castrato'. Javier Medina was chemically castrated due to leukemia at the age of 8 years, later in life he began his musical formation in choirs becoming the first castrato the the world has heard in almost a century.
9w4W6 TIL that according to Hinduism, the Hindi words for "venus" and "semen" are the same because Shiva vored Shukra(the God of Venus) and he came out as semen.
k4M7 TIL: The murder rate by firearms is less than half of what it was 20 years ago in the USA (6.6 per 100K in 1993 vs 3.2 per 100K now)
loR55 TIL that stereo FM radio doesn't broadcast the left and right audio on separate channels to ensure full compatibility with mono receivers.