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TIL Many people killed in crowd disasters die standing up
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TIL Michael and Joy Brown gave their friend a paid year off in 1956 to write a book. Their friend was Harper Lee and she wrote “To Kill a Mockingbird”
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TIL of Taro Tsujimoto, a fictional Ice Hockey player created by the Buffalo Sabres. Fed up with how long the 1974 draft was taking, the Sabres drafted a fake player named after a local Japanese shop. The NHL made the pick official and only found out just before the start of training camps that year.
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TIL-Martin Luther King Jr was once stabbed in the chest, which only deepened his commitment to nonviolence.
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TIL that spending 76 minutes a day outside reduces a child’s chance of becoming short-sighted by 50%.
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TIL There is a film that has been in development since 1981, that by 2004 had only 25 minutes of usable footage.