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TIL for whom the bell tolls does not mean that the dead cant hear the bells

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j6jWQ TIL Vesna Vulović fell 33,330 feet and she is credited as surviving the highest fall ever recorded.
V9Lk TIL that in 2011, Adam Sandler won the Golden Raspberry Award for BOTH worst male and female actor for his role in Jack and Jill
J874 TIL the mantis shrimp strikes a blow at the speed of a bullet, which also produces cavitation bubbles (similar to boiling) in the water. The prey is thus struck twice - once by the blow itself, and a second time when the bubbles collapse. The blow is powerful enough to break aquarium glass as well.
kaGW TIL on January 1 2019, works published in 1923 will enter the public domain. These will be the first works to do so since the 1998 copyright extension commonly known as the Mickey Mouse Protection Act.
xbv0 TIL Hell’s Angels prevented the WBC from picketing the funerals of Sandy Hook victims.