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TIL about a 1997 incident at Six Flags Hurricane Harbor Concord in which a section of a waterslide collapsed after students from a local high school piled into it, in an attempt to break a school record. The collapse caused 32 injuries and the death of 18 year old Quimby Ghilotti.

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AD7nn TIL that Nike had conditions before giving rookie Michael Jordan a record contract: Either be rookie of the year, or average 20 ppg, or be an all star, or sell $4 mill worth shoes in a year. Jordan was rookie of the year, scored 28.2 ppg, named all star, and Nike sold $100 mill of shoes in 1984-85.
BrrBb TIL of film director "Uwe Boll", who challenged the five harshest critics of his films, to boxing matches. He fought and won against all five critics (video of fights in comments). Boll's invitations were also open to film directors Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary.
d8gXK TIL Dr. Joseph-Ignace Guillotin did not necessarily invent the guillotin.
W149 TIL that a morbidly obese Houston man managed to sneak a pistol into a jail by hiding it in his fat folds, before admitting it to the police many hours later.
lo6aA TIL in 2008, a Mad Cow Disease beef recall was impelled by a whistleblower who took illegal, undercover footage of the sick cows.