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TIL that over 50 WWE wrestlers that competed in 1990s are now dead

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8gmK TIL that the Infinite Monkey Theorem, stating that monkeys with typewriters and enough time could produce the entire works of Shakespeare, has been tried out in real life. They wrote five pages of S, slammed the keyboard with a stone and took a shit on it.
xVOLk TIL that the electric car FOMM ONE is designed to float on water in the event of floods and tsunamis.
VMM6Z TIL that the words celadon, gargantuan, and malapropism, as well as many others are actually characters from stories that later entered common language.
9Yo67 TIL about Olympus Mons, the highest mountain in the solar system, which is about 2.5x taller than Everest, is about the size of Poland, and has a mile wide moat around it due to the immense weight pushing down the crust of Mars around it.
jJ0M TIL the actor Thomas Kretschmann, who appeared in King Kong and The Pianist, made a month-long trek from East to West Germany to escape communism when he was 19. He crossed 4 borders with only a passport and the equivalent of $100 and lost part of his finger to frostbite.