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GYgdN TIL A 17 year old boy jumped off the Golden Gate Bridge as a dare and survived with his only injuries "bruising and tenderness"
4XZMa TIL the Earth often has more than one moon. The Earth captures asteroids and they orbit our planet for about a year before being pulled away by the sun. The mini-moon 2020 CD3 left us on March 7th and was about the size of a compact car. The technical term is "temporarily captured object."
mxvwO TIL about Union Pacific's restoration of UP 4014 "Big Boy". When completed in 2019, it will be the largest, heaviest, and most powerful operating steam locomotive in the world.
ARmw TIL India is the 2nd most racially intolerant country in the world, with 43.5% of the population claiming they would refuse to live next to someone of a different race.
yVjb8 TIL of gamma-ray bursts, immensely energetic explosions that occur when a giant star implodes and becomes a black hole. It can release as much energy in a few seconds as the Sun will in its entire 10-billion-year lifetime. It may also have caused a mass extinction on Earth 440 million years ago.