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TIL that a woman named Violet Jessop survived three famous shipwrecks: the Titanic, the Britannic, and the Olympic.

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W76N8 TIL that Dolly Parton considered suicide in the 1980s. Her dog "Popeye" jumped on her and distracted her from following through.
8WLX TIL of Scott E. Parazynski, the only person to have flown in space and summited Mount Everest. Parazynski flew five times in the Space Shuttle and conducted seven spacewalks. In 2008, he failed to summit Everest due to a severe back injury, but succeeded on his second try the next year.
R7JjQ TIL twins Grace and Virginia Kennedy (b. 1970) were often left alone with their German speaking grandmother as children and as a result developed their own secret language. They used it til they were about 8 when they were forbidden to by their father. They called each other "Poto" and "Cabengo".
7rV0p TIL of the Boerne 0.5K Run, with a donut station and designated smoking area at the halfway point and 0.5K VIP Shuttle option
9wBgG TIL a doctor poisoned his mom's boyfriend, while disguised as a nurse administering a fake booster shot, because his mom put him in her will. The doctor likely injected him with iodomethane, a pesticide which caused him to get necrotising fasciitis. However, he did survive the ordeal.