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TIL That Usain Bolt would beat a Free Fall diver (and gravity) in a race to the finish.

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Z8jR4 TIL about William Castle, a producer /director know for his unusual promotional gimmicks, such as wiring theater seats to vibrate and shake during the climax of his movie and setting up a booth for people to get refunds during a movie’s “Fright Break” if they were too scared to see the ending
ADyLn TIL about Carl Tanzler, a radiology technologist at the Marine-Hospital Service in Key West, Florida. He developed an obsession for a young Cuban-American tuberculosis patient. In 1933, almost 2 yrs after her death, Tanzler removed her body from its tomb, & lived w the corpse for 7 yrs.
loRmB TIL April 28th is International Workers' Memorial Day, an international day of remembrance for workers killed or injured in the workplace.
1nBP TIL that in the Cold War, the United States spent millions of dollars to supply Afghan schoolchildren with textbooks filled with violent images and militant Islamic teachings, in order to spur resistance to the Soviet occupation.
9YmvG TIL about 14 cargo ships that were stranded in the Suez Canal for 8 years, whose crews all decided to form a micronation