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TIL that 85-90% of passengers that fall overboard on cruise ships perish.

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gMgv8 TIL that researchers at Draper Laboratory have genetically engineered a dragonfly to become a cyborg. It is equipped with a “backpack” of sensors, electronics and a solar panel and can be controlled remotely through its light sensitive “steering neurons”
0QRA TIL When a born deaf person thinks, they feel themselves signing in their head
mxlmy TIL that in 1986, serial killer Wayne Nance broke into Doug and Kris Welles’s home. Despite being bound, stabbed in the chest, and then later shot, Doug managed to save his wife by shooting their attacker in one of the few known cases of a serial killer being killed by their intended victim.
r7PW TIL the fat and round “Laughing Buddha” isn’t a depiction of Gauthama Buddha at all, but of a Chinese deity called “Budai”
Vm54 TIL as recently as 2010, there was a member of the United States Senate who was, at one time, a member of the KKK. He had also, as recently as 2001, used the “N” word in an interview with Fox News.