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TIL about "Gray Gardens" a 1975 documentary about the eccentric lifestyles of Edith Ewing Bouvier Beale and Edith Bouvier Beale, known as "Big Edie" and "Little Edie" respectively, a mother and daughter who removed themselves from society, and live in decaying, old mansion.

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4kRvR TIL In 1988 Ivan McGuire, an experienced skydiver with 800 recorded dives jumped from the plane for his 3rd dive that day. He had his camera rig with him but completely forgot to equip a parachute rig, thus he jumped to his death from 10.000 feet. The camera footage of the fatal fall survived
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R79b1 TIL in 1941 California built a prison for violent inmates where cells were unlocked and there was only a short barbed-wire fence around it
D1DYJ TIL that the person considered the most successful pirate in history is a woman
EgnD0 TIL that Steven Spielberg couldn't find an airport that would allow him to film 'The Terminal', so he shot it instead in a hangar in a classified complex once used to build the B1-B bomber.