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TIL New York Yankees pitcher Cory Lidle's 2006 deadly airplane crash hit the apartment of the same woman who was critically injured at the 1997 Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade after the Cat in The Hat balloon struck a lamppost that wound up hitting her in the head.

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XEpAR TIL The lightest touch from a human, animal, insect, or even plants touching, triggers a huge gene response in plants. Within 30 mins of being touched, 10% of the plant's genome is altered. This is a huge expenditure of energy. If the touching is repeated, then plant growth is reduced by up to 30%
d8Bw7 TIL Gavrilo Princip, the man who assassinated Archduke Franz Ferdinand, believed the World War was bound to happen, independent of his actions. Chained to a wall in solitary confinement at the Terezín fortress, he died in 1918 weighing around 40kg from malnutrition and disease.
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W7VA TIL the Arab World doesn’t read many books unless they are about religion. Spain translates more books in a single year than the entire Arab world has translated in the last 1,000 years.