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TIL The second person to survive going over Niagra falls in a barrel, Bobby Leach, later died after slipping on an orange peel

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LkedP TIL Robert Moses at one point held 12 titles simultaneously (including New York City Parks Commissioner and Chairman of the Long Island State Park Commission). However he only held these positions as an appointee. When he ran for governor of New York as a Republican in 1934 he lost in a landslide.
6EbNX Today I learned Woody Harrelson's father was a contract killer
Yply7 TIL that the name Sahara comes from the Arabic word for "desert" and Gobi comes from the Chinese word for "desert". The Sahara Desert and Gobi Deserts are both the "Desert Desert."
ekJE TIL After becoming obsessed with roller coasters, Chris Sawyer created and coded RollerCoaster Tycoon entirely by himself in Assembly…arguably the most difficult programming language of all. For his efforts he received about $30 million of the estimated $180 million brought in by the game.
6EjbQ TIL that “Dog days of summer” refers to when the Sun occupies the same region of the sky as Sirius, the brightest star visible from any part of Earth and part of the constellation Canis Major, the Greater Dog