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TIL That In 1996 during an SAS training exercise 21 year old Bear Grylls broke his back after falling from 16,000 feet due to a torn parachute. 2 years later he climbed Mt. Everest becoming the youngest Briton to reach the world's highest peak at the time.
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TIL Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus is believed to have been made dictator of Rome on two separate occasions. On both occasions Cincinnatus quickly dealt with the problem at hand and resigned after 15 days in 458 BC and 21 days in 439 BC.
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TIL of British General Charles “No-flint” Grey. Grey defeated several American armies in stealth attacks, using his favoured tactic of having his men remove the flints from their muskets and attack enemies using their bayonets alone.
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TIL: During an average lifetime of driving, we face about a one-in-three chance of being seriously injured or killed in a motor vehicle crash.
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TIL In 2000, when several planets happened to be close to one another, astrologers predicted that there would be catastrophes, volcanic eruptions and tidal waves. This caused an entire sea-side village to panic and abandon their houses. Nothing predicted happened and their houses were burgled