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TIL Youtube star Jenna Marbles has made 2.5 million dollars from her channel

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J1VMm TIL two pilots had their licenses revoked after participating in a failed stunt. While mid-flight, the pilots attempted to plane swap by skydiving from one aircraft to the other. Only one completed it. The other landed by parachute after being unable to enter the opposite plane, causing it crash.
d8DJK TIL about a shipping container that was filled with rubber duckies who got lost at sea in 1992. The bath toys are still washing ashore today at many different locations such as Australia, Scotland and even Alaska.
Eg1D0 TIL of the "Boring Billion". From roughly 1.8 billion BC to 0.8 billion BC, relatively nothing happened on earth. There was tectonic stability, a static climate, and hardly any biological evolution. It has been termed "The Dullest Time in Earth's History".
Dkjp TIL If a human dies in outer space their body won’t decompose due to no present oxygen (a key component to decomposition). A corpse could drift in space looking fresh & new for millions of years.
MeN5m TIL the word 'robot' was invented by Czech anti-fascist writers. 'Robota' means 'forced labour', & was coined by Josef Čapek. His brother Karel's 1920 sci-fi play 'R.U.R.' tells of android workers rising up against human masters. Josef was murdered in the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp in 1945.