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TIL Helter Skelter is a Roller Coaster in Britian

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nWaD9 TIL about the death of 9yr old Stanton Walker. A spectator at a baseball game in Morristown(ohio), he was struck by a foul ball while a knife was passed between his companions for the purpose of sharpening a score keeping pencil. The knife lodged between his ribs and he died in minutes.
5gnB TIL 70% of all red meat consumed worldwide is goat meat.
OGkZa TIL that Nike's legacy of sports footwear innovation was started by co-founder Bill Bowerman, with a waffle iron. The shoe was called waffle racer.
VBQWG TIL in 2020 scientists captured the first direct image of a solar system that closely resembles our own (roughly 300 light years away), that is to say it marked the first time astronomers have observed more than one planet orbiting a star similar to the Sun.
kJeeE TIL that in 1973, a jet plane ingested a Rüppell’s vulture while flying at its cruising altitude of 37,000 feet. This is the highest flight of a bird ever recorded.