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TIL that in 2013, a 16-year old girl survived a plane crash, only to be run over and killed by a responding fire truck.

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wo5eM TIL about the Peter principle, which observes that people in a hierarchy tend to rise to "a level of respective incompetence".
0dGWp TIL Nurse Violet Jessop survived a collision on the Olympic (1911), the sinking of the Titanic (1912) and the sinking of the Britannic (1916 during WWI)
xVmJg TIL the largest integrated film city in the world is located in India, and has been described as "a city within a city". It is also a popular tourism and recreation centre, containing several attractions including an amusement park. Around 1.5 million tourists visit the place every year.
YpAJB TIL the horse's head in the movie The Godfather was real, from a local dog food company
XEVvR TIL there's a bio-hacker project to produce insulin cheaply.