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TIL all the chutes opened properly in the worst skydiving accident in US history. The 16 fatalities occurred because they were told to jump over water, instead of land, and drown.

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Pj1J TIL that the Mad Max Fury Road stunt doubles for Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron both met on set and are now married with a 14-month old son
p8PaN TIL that Stephen King cannot remember writing Cujo (1981) because he was so out of it on cocaine
b9Y1j TIL Dragonflies are capable of higher-level thought processes when hunting its prey. The discovery is the first evidence that an invertebrate animal has brain cells for selective attention, which has so far has only been demonstrated in primates. It selects one target and filters out all others
ndRd TIL of Diana Kim, a photographer from Hawaii, who, after 10 years of documenting the homeless, found her own father among them.
ZomQ TIL under certain conditions, a pilot not trained to fly by gyroscopic instruments can enter into a death spiral, believing that he is maintaining straight flight and completely unaware that he even turning.