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TIL of the 1972 Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor air show disaster.

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oBPp8 TIL: Peregrine Falcons are one of the most common birds of prey, living in every continent except Antarctica.
JPn1 TIL: In 2007, a 55 year-old Slovenian man swam the Amazon, 3,274 miles, non-stop over 66 days. When told that his daily intake of two bottles of wine should be lessened for his health, he responded “I have to drink, I have to swim-I am Martin!”
ePOL TIL General Motors used live animals as crash test dummies up until 1993 and once received a letter “so mean it ended up in the hands of the FBI”.
ne4bo TIL in 1987 Count Chocula had to be pulled from store shelves as boxes showed Dracula wearing a prominent Jewish Star of David, caused by a 6-pointed medallion not being drawn correctly.
YR0W TIL if each star in our galaxy had a trillion planets, with a trillion people living on them, and each of these people has a trillion packs of cards and somehow they manage to make unique shuffles 1,000 times per second since the Big Bang, they’d only be starting to repeat shuffles now.