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TIL that Hawaiian Water-Powered Jet Packs Pose a Threat to Fishes and Coral Reef

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kOyEm TIL of the 2003 Congo Air Disaster, when upwards of 200 people were sucked out of the plane to their deaths when the cargo door failed.
Y7n0r TIL of the pirate William Dampier, who wrote the first guacamole recipe, and gave us words like chopsticks, barbecue, and breadfruit.
epr0D TIL that Steven Seagal claimed that, due to his aikido training, he was "immune" to being choked unconscious. With Seagal's permission, his stuntman proceeded to choke him unconscious, with Seagal losing control of his bowels.
VBnjm TIL: The US Navy once fired a torpedo at a ship carrying the president of the United States
QNLEp TIL Ellar Coltrane Kinney Salmon, the person who played the child in "Boyhood," uses the singular they pronoun and rejects the gender binary. "For me, the binary gender demarcation always has felt just kind of like … a charade, like this character that I have to play."