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TIL Bear Grylls survived a free fall from 16,000 feet after his parachute failed to deploy

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JYGl8 TIL we don’t know who invented the iconic post-type fire hydrant because the patent office records were destroyed in a fire in 1836.
M7YxB TIL the role of Pinky Carruthers in Buckaroo Banzai was played by Billy Vera, who wrote and sang the hit ballad "At This Moment"
O9ae TIL that in 1994, when the Ku Klux Klan applied to sponsor a portion of United States Interstate 55 in Missouri which allowed them to have signs stating the sponsorship, since the state could not legally refuse it, the Missouri legislature voted to name the highway section the “Rosa Parks Highway”.
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