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TIL Mike Tyson has a TV show where him and a team solve mysteries

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KwbE TIL that maintenance workers on the Golden Gate Bridge are first on the scene to talk down suicidal jumpers. They estimate having a 90% success rate.
d8LZE TIL when Thoreau lived “alone” at Walden Pond the woods around him were actually full of people, mostly former slaves and poor people who had been forced to live in the margins of society.
EwJx TIL that in 1974, Ian Ball attempted to kidnap Princess Anne. After shooting her bodyguard, chauffeur and a bystander, he asked her to get out of the car, to which she responded “Not bloody likely”
vPVxx TIL humans are considered neotenus apes, meaning we retain juveline characteristics into adulthood
RBx8 TIL: Bats exert no energy to hang upside down, instead relying on its body weight to keep it’s talons closed.