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pYyVA TIL of drummer Cozy Powell's fatal car crash. He was traveling 104mph in the rain while drunk and talking on his phone with a woman who was cheating on her husband with him. He also had no seatbelt on, a leaking tire, and was still recovering from a recent motorcycle accident.
4Qla TIL that when contestants win a car on The Price is Right, they don’t actually get the car on stage. Instead they get a certificate to take to a local dealership, where they pay sales tax
kNWm TIL during the Cuban Missile Crisis, French President Charles de Gaulle declined to see the surveillance photos saying, “The word of the president of the United States is good enough for me.”
oRPV8 TIL that in 1982, a man named Larry Walters attached 45 helium balloons to a lawn chair and flew to 16,000 feet, only intending to fly 10 meters. He landed safely on a power line that broke, causing a 20-minute electricity blackout, and was arrested by the FAA for violating airspace.
N7AP8 TIL that Ethiopia, a country in Eastern Africa, has a population of 110 million people and is twice the size of the US state of Texas