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TIL about Vesna Vulović, the Guinness world record holder for surviving the highest fall without a parachute: 10,160 m (33,330 ft; 6.31 mi)

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Y7mKW TIL My 2 favorite Christmas movies (Christmas Vacation and Home Alone) were written by the same man, John Hughes (And they released only 1 year apart)
M7GKV TIL in 1997, Lottie Williams was walking in a park when she felt a tap on her shoulder. After turning around and seeing no one there, she found that a piece of mesh had fallen from the sky and tapped her. An analysis revealed the mesh was from a Delta II rocket on re-entry.
oR45E TIL an Elephant’s trunk has 40,000 muscles! A COMPLETE human body only has around 650 for comparison
grwA7 TIL 70% of roughly 100 human deaths by grizzlies have been by mothers defending cubs, whereas, there is no record of a black bear mother killing anyone in defense of cubs. Mothers with cubs were involved in 3 of the 61 killings by black bears across America since 1900, but not in defense of her cubs
lBxK TIL that every Autumn, the Spartans had a period wherein their young men would go into the countryside with daggers and kill slaves without punishment as part of a “manhood test”