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TIL The 7 Wonders of the Ancient world all co-existed in time for 54 years until the Colossus of Rhodes fell.

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yL4e TIL that “The Parachute murder” is a name the Belgian media gave the 2010 Belgian love triangle skydiving murder trial. Two women had fallen in love with the same man, and while parachuting one had sabotaged the other’s parachute.
p8WZ4 TIL the Guinness World Record for highest fall without a parachute is held by Vesna Vulovic, a Serbian flight attendant who was the only survivor after a bomb went off on a commercial flight over Czechoslovakia in 1972. She fell 10,160 metres (33,330 ft) and recovered fully aside from a small limp.
0dr6j TIL: Financial literacy, knowledge of savings, debt, interest rates, etc, has been dropping each generation. Gen Z only answered 28% of the questions correctly, but were confident in their financial self beliefs in comparison. This was supported through dozens of studies.
oRgK8 TIL that George Washington died with a net worth of $594.2 million in today’s money, and drew a presidential salary of $25,000 (~$900k today) which was around 2% of the government’s budget at the time.
7rPlM TIL in 2007 GameFAQs had a contest to determine the best video game character. The L-Block from Tetris emerged as the winner.