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TIL A woman jumped off of the Eiffel Tower and landed on a car and survived, then later married the car’s owner.

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Xl4D TIL Isaac Asimov once said: “There is a cult of ignorance in the United States…The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our life, nurtured by the notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
gMXXA TIL that the Pyrenean ibex was cloned back from extinction for several minutes, three years after the species had originally gone extinct, until the clone that had been produced died due to lung defects
Y7LNA TIL that The sperm whale is the largest of the toothed whales and the largest toothed predator.
7peM TIL Sleeping Beauty was raped by the prince in the original Grimm Fairy Tales
v19E4 TIL that in 1900, the Secretary of the Navy wanted to use the USS Constitution for target practice until it sunk. A benefactor offered to buy it but was refused so he started a campaign that successfully pressured Congress into saving it. Built in 1797, it is now the oldest ship still afloat.