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TIL that a 2024, 50-year study shows that ski helmets can protect against typical concussions from falling on the snow surface, but not atypical high-speed collisions against trees on blue runs which remain statistically fatal.

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0dxy TIL Oskar Schindler, who saved over 1100 Jews in WWII by employing them, spent all his fortune on bribes and black market purchases for his workers. After the war he never regained any of his wealth and in later life had to live off of a small pension from the German government.
LyaP TIL United Fruit Company’s main rival was Guatemala, who exported lots of fruit. To eliminate them, United lied to the US government that Guatemala’s government was Pro-Soviet. The US staged a coup, which led to the 36 year long Guatemalan civil war.
BgWZD TIL In a scientific lecture about erectile dysfunction that took place in a urologists convention in 1983, renowned professor of urology Sir Giles Brindley whipped out his erect member and attempted to grant the aghast members of the audience a close inspection, resulting in a pandemonium
NKm8 TIL Lionel Richie grew up in racially segregated Alabama and once unwittingly drank from a whites only fountain. White men confronted his father, who grabbed Richie and ran off. Richie asked his father why he didn’t stay and fight. His dad answered, “I had a choice: to be a man or be a father.”
PYWwg TIL that the song "I've danced with a man, who's danced with a girl, who's danced with the Prince of Wales" was inspired by Edna Deane being asked for a dance nine times by the future Edward VIII.