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TIL The survival rate in serious aviation accidents is about as high as 95%. Serious accidents are events where the aircraft suffers significant damage, or where people on board are severely injured or killed

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OoOXe TIL that the character Machete, as played by Danny Trejo from the B-movie of the same name and the then-fake trailer attached to the Grindhouse (2007) double feature, is in fact the exact same character that debuted (also played by Danny Treijo) in Spy Kids (2001).
rNm6y TIL that the oldest known reference to crisps (potato chips) dates to 1817, when an Englishman named William Kitchiner included them in his book 'The Cook's Oracle'
GYROg TIL that Violet Jessop survived the Titanic, Britannic, and Olympic disasters and is known as "Miss Unsinkable."
v1ZVK TIL the Keyboard Cat meme video, though uploaded to youtube in 2007, was actually recorded in 1984
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