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TIL: In the 1690s, Swordswoman and Opera Singer Julie d’Aubigny kissed a woman while wearing men’s clothes at a ball. For such an ‘insult’ she was challenged to a duel by three men. She accepted and beat all three, at the same time!

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DLAg TIL that when we forget why we went into another room, it is because of doorways.
4kNM5 TIL Mt. Thor on Baffin Island, Canada, has Earth’s greatest sheer vertical drop (4,101 feet).You can take one step off the peak and fall nearly a mile before you hit anything.
E76p TIL: When Clint Eastwood was 21 he survived a plan crash in the ocean then swam unassisted two miles in the frigid Pacific waters just off the San Fransisco Bay.
LWxZ TIL that Eddie Van Halen’s payment for his solo on Michael Jackson’s “Beat It” was two six packs of beer.
16OO TIL that, contrary to depictions in science fiction, the human body can briefly survive in outer space unprotected, and that the human skin doubles in size, more resembling a body builder than a balloon.