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TIL Sighing is not just a sign of despair. The crucial reflex actually preserves lung function and keeps you alive.

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eR5n TIL that on February 1, 2012, the workers at a store in King Cove, Alaska, left a half hour early because the weather was bad. 15 minutes later, an avalanche slammed into the store’s warehouse, annihilating it. And it was all caught on three separate security cameras.
9wDmX TIL in No Country for Old Men one of the characters says "Here a while back in San Antonio they shot and killed a federal judge", which is a reference to a 1979 assassination committed by Woody Harrelson’s father, for which he received 2 life sentences
y9PJ TIL that Saturn’s sixth-largest moon, Enceladus, has a warm ocean with ongoing hydrothermal activity. The first ever discovered outside of Earth.
46Na TIL Gilbert Gottfried never uses his real voice when he is in public. Here is audio of his actual voice.
78JmZ TIL that the Bennerley Viaduct was built as a solution to railway rivalry and difficult terrain, and it still stands because its innovation wrought iron lattice construction was too difficult and expensive to demolish and now it's a Grade II* listed building (i.e. protected)