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TIL 1 in 5 people in shock will die due to it.

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NXGlM TIL in 1783, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier made the first manned free balloon flight. He later died in 1785 attempting to fly across the English Channel, becoming the first victim of an air crash.
wLxQ8 TIL if you stand on Mercury, experiencing a day, from sunrise to sunrise, will take two full orbits around the sun, and three full rotations of the planet.
nWDYP TIL Despite the release of Windows Vista, 7, 8, and 8.1 - Windows XP still maintained almost 1/3rd of the OS market share in 2014.
g9bW TIL John Lennon’s son Julian Lennon had to buy back his father’s letters written to him and other of John’s belongings in an auction that Yoko Ono did after John’s death. Julian basically used his dad’s money to buy his dad’s belongings.
d8w69 TIL about Takanakuy, a festival held on the 25th of December by people from the Chumbivilcas Province in Peru. The festival consists of drinking, dancing and fist fighting each other to settle old conflicts, much like Christmas is celebrated in my family.