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TIL Many people killed in crowd disasters die standing up

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rk5o TIL there was a made-for-TV Gilligan’s Island movie featuring the Harlem Globetrotters playing a team of robots
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9YAOr TIL Honey Never Spoils, you could eat 3,000 year old honey.
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