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TIL The first helicopter rescue occurred April 21-25 1944 when a Sikorsky R-4 rescued 4 British soldiers from behind Japanese lines after their transport plane crashed.

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Wk8BN TIL Mt. Rainier is rated one of the most dangerous volcanoes in the world. It is on the list of the World's 16 "Decade Volcanoes", so-called due to their history of large, destructive eruptions and proximity to densely populated areas, threatening tens or hundreds of thousands of people.
OOe1 TIL 75% of all tornadoes happen within the United States
nDMP TIL Based on the landmarks in the training scene of Rocky II, Rocky ran 30.61 miles before jumping around with a bunch of kids at the top of the stairs at The Philadelphia Museum of Art.
J184j TIL that Alonzo Clemons suffered brain damage as a child due to a fall, which left him permanently disabled but gave him a prodigious talent for sculpting: he just needs to see an animal for a few seconds to make a perfectly anatomically accurate sculpture of it with his bare hands.
R7l78 TIL Brandon Lee's stunt double in "The Crow" was later used as a stand-in for Lee after his death and CGI was used to digitally superimpose Lee's face onto the head of the double. The stunt double was Chad Stahelski who later directed "John Wick" and "John Wick: Chapter 2".