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TIL in WW2 an RAF Airman jumped out of his burning plane with no functioning parachute and freefell 18,000 feet. He survived with minor injuries.

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GNQJ TIL: Bill Gates is giving away all his money and leaving only 10m each to his 3 children so “they can make their own way.”
wLQmP TIL that in an experiment that trained rats to drive tiny cars by giving treats as a reward, rats ended up loving driving so much they’d do it without a reward
YpZdd TIL that the largest cave in the world is Hang Soon Doong and is located in Vietnam and it could contain an entire city with 40-story skyscrapers and in contains a large underground forest that was able to grow and developed thanks to skylights created by the collapse of parts of its vault.
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