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TIL that a British midshipman, Wenman Wykeham-Musgrave, managed to survive the torpedoing and sinking of three different warships -- within the space of about an hour

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kxxW TIL that all of the spent nuclear fuel in the United States could be safely stored in a building the size of a Wal-Mart
p8WZ4 TIL the Guinness World Record for highest fall without a parachute is held by Vesna Vulovic, a Serbian flight attendant who was the only survivor after a bomb went off on a commercial flight over Czechoslovakia in 1972. She fell 10,160 metres (33,330 ft) and recovered fully aside from a small limp.
JmZj TIL Garry Kasparov played versus the world at a game of chess online, where over 50,000 different people from more than 75 countries voted on the best move. Kasparov won when 51% of his enemies surrendered.
neBvd TIL that the reason the US offers a lower max octane rating fuel (91AKI or 95RON) at petrol stations in some states, is due to the higher altitude, meaning that there is less available oxygen for combustion, and therefore a decreased chance of knocking with lower octane rated fuels.
xVEoD TIL - An American woman lost all her teeth due to fluoride poisoning from tea. She'd been having a pitcher of ice tea made with 100-150 bags every day for 17 years.