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TIL of a girl named Laura Buxton who released a balloon with her name on it that landed in the yard of another girl also named Laura Buxton. They also have the same color hair, are in the same grade, have black three-year-old female Labrador dogs and a rabbit and identical guinea pigs each.

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4kL9X TIL of the 1955 Le Mans disaster. French driver Pierre Levegh crashed into a crowd of spectators. The crash, explosion and subsequent fire killed 84 and injured more than 120. It is still the deadliest car race crash ever.
EgDPX TIL that Kevin Feige, president of Marvel Studios, was rejected by the USC School of Cinematic Arts five times before being accepted on his sixth application
Dj8j TIL of the Dyatlov Pass Incident. The mysterious unsolved death of 9 hikers who tore through their tents naked in sub-0 temperatures. 7 died of hypothermia, one of a fractured skull, one female team member had her tongue and eyes missing. Offical cause of death: “unknown compelling force”
lom8N TIL a fan asked the studio making the 2018 Spider-man game on twitter to include a marriage proposal as an easter-egg which they agreed to do. They wrote "Maddie will you marry me?" on a theater marquee in the game but the couple broke up before the game was even released and it is still there.
ynYe TIL that in the Battle of Asal Uttar (1965 Indo-Pakistan war), the Indian army let the Pakistan army think they had retreated, and then flooded the sugarcane fields they camping in overnight, causing the Pakistan tanks sink into the mud. The Pakistan army lost 100 tanks against India’s 10.