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TIL a bomb went off in a commercial airliner, blowing it into several pieces and fell for 3 minutes before crashing on a frozen mountain top. One woman survied and now holds the Guinness World Record for the highest fall survived without a parachute, at 33,330 feet.

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lo4RG TIL English words with Arabic origin include: alcohol, algorithm, assassin, average, candy, chemistry, coffee, cotton, lemon, orange, magazine, mattress, sofa, traffic, and zero
1aDaD TIL: "The Momsen Lung" was a device used in World War 2 to escape submarines over 100ft deep. It recycled oxygen in your breath while filtering C02. It was used only once, in 1944, by 9 members of the USS Tang after it torpedoed itself and sank in 180 feet of water
mxw5v TIL A frog in Ecuador has the ability to shape-shift and change skin textures in minutes
JYgLj TIL William Walker worked under water below Winchester Cathedral for six hours a day for six years to restore the building's foundation. He worked in total darkness, using his bare hands to feel his way through the cloudy, muddy water.
ed0n TIL that pan-African nations have come together pledging to build a 15 kilometer wide band of trees that will stretch all the way across Africa, 7500 kilometer, in order to stop the progressive advancement of the Sahara.