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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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P1Ebw TIL about the woman who was hanging out with friends at the American Legion in a small Minnesota town. Her car slid off the icy road into a ditch. Trying to walk to a friend's house, she ended up freezing (solid!) in her friend's yard. She lived, was fine actually, and still ives in Minnesota.
9wNXm TIL that the rare and ancient coelacanth fish give birth to live offspring called "pups"
d8WB7 TIL that Boston Corbett, the Union army solider who fatally shot John Wilkes Booth, later went insane and was incarcerated in a mental asylum (Topeka Asylum for the Insane) in 1887. He escaped from the facility a year later and was never seen again.
Brd9d TIL: The card game Cards against humanity bought an island to preserve wildlife, it was named "Hawaii 2"
7PvL TIL That Portobello Mushrooms are the same as white mushrooms, they’re just left to grow for longer