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TIL Of the Sayano-Shushenskaya power station accident. A turbine cover failed, causing the 920-tonne rotor to be ejected in to the turbine hall. 75 people died

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gMAl7 TIL about marathon runner Paul Pilkington. In the 1994 LA Marathon, he was paid to set a pace early for other runners with the assumption that he'd eventually drop back during the race. Realizing he had a strong lead, Pilkington shocked everyone by winning.
wLBK8 TIL a married father in France went to the hospital complaining of a 2 week history of mild leg weakness, only to find out he lived his whole life with 90% of his brain missing
Wrrd TIL in 1954 the USA overthrew the democratically elected Guatemalan President Jacobo Árbenz and ended the Guatemalan Revolution. It installed the military dictatorship of Carlos Castillo Armas, the first in a series of U.S.-backed dictators who ruled Guatemala.
JvA1 TIL of James Randi a psychic debunker and former magician that carries and will give a check of $1,000,000 (one million dollars) to anyone that can demonstrates any form of psychic, supernatural, or paranormal ability under satisfactory observation.
XEWgk TIL the longest-running video game series is, by far: The Oregon Trail. First published in 1971 by the Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium, it beats out the next series (Pac-Man) by almost a decade.