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TIL: The Battle of Karansebes of 1788 was a friendly fire incident where the Austrian army got drunk with locals, and during a drunken fight, shots were fired, resulting in a panic that caused 150 deaths, 1200 wounds, 538 men went missing, and 3 cannons and a chest containing payroll was stolen.

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l7G1K TIL: Ledell Lee, a man convicted of murder, maintained his innocence until his execution in 2017. Years later, new DNA evidence revealed the presence of an unknown person’s DNA on the murder weapon, sparking renewed debate about potential wrongful convictions in the U.S.
bK69 TIL In 2006, skydiver Michael Holmes jumped out of a plane at 15,000 ft. Wearing a helmet camera, his first chute failed, then his reserve, then he waived good-bye before landing in a blackberry bush and surviving. It was one highest falls on record.
oW4A TIL that Florida is the flattest state, Kansas isn’t even in the top 5.
wjNJ TIL that the CIA shut down access to the 23rd highest mountain in the world for nearly a decade in the ‘60s because they lost a nuclear powered missile detector in an avalanche
GWZ1 TIL actor Norman Reedus was first discovered at a party in Los Angeles where he started screaming with giant sunglasses on