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TIL Felix Baumgartner’s skydiving record was shattered just a few months ago by a Google Exec

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mxBQM TIL a computer virus discovered in 1991 was named the Michelangelo virus by researchers due to its time bomb feature activating the virus on March 6 of any year, a date that happened to coincide with the birth of Renaissance artist Michelangelo.
e0jjD TIL of the Battle of Gate Pā in 1864 where Maori troops defeated a British force six times larger.
jNZbj TIL the F-82 "Twin Mustang" fighter plane, designed to escort bombers thousands of miles to Tokyo, was literally two P-51 Mustangs joined at the wing. Both cockpits were fully functional, so one pilot could sleep while the other flew the plane on missions that could last up to 12 hours.
BrjeD TIL the bands Three Dog Night name came from Aboriginal Australians. On cold nights they would sleep in a hole in the ground with a dingo, a native species of wild dog. On colder nights they would sleep with two dogs and, if the night were freezing, it was a "three dog night".
kJZJ7 TIL of Volcano Snails, an endangered species of gastropod that live only around deep-sea hydrothermal vents, in environments that reach 400°C (750°F). They are the only living animals that possess an armour of hundreds of iron and pyrite mineralised plates (sclerites), and have an iron-infused shell