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TIL the song Dumb Ways to Die has been attributed with up to a 30% reduction in near miss train accidents during the following 12 months after its release

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lXLr TIL when Soviet Minister Molotov stated that the cluster bombs being dropped on Finland were actually food, the Finns began sarcastically calling the bombs “Molotov bread baskets,” which they responded to with their own “Molotov cocktails,” as “a drink to go with the food.”
5D5r TIL that the first person to jump off the Brooklyn Bridge was a professional high diver who “wanted to demonstrate that people did not die by simply falling through the air”. He proved himself correct by falling 135 feet safely through the air, only dying when he hit the water.
emv4 TIL that the most common way we board airplanes, the block method, is actually the least efficient way.
6Eo8l TIL that the first marriage of Gioffre Borgia took place when he was just 12, and was a political marriage to the 16 year old Sancha of Aragon
8elNP TIL that Supai, AZ is the most remote community in the contiguous US. It is 8 miles from the nearest road and is only accessible by foot, mule, or helicopter. It is the only place in the United States where mail is still carried in and out by mules.