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TIL You can buy a completely renovated and converted Boeing 727 jet that accommodates 23 people for less than the cost of a Ferrari

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nkNd TIL the Olympic event that could have been: in the 1908 Summer Games, pistol dueling was a sport. Contestants used wax bullets and metal masks for safety.
0lDL TIL 12 years old, Johnny Cash saw his own brother mortally wounded by a mill saw. He died a week later.
7rmZb TIL: Muscles can only pull and cannot push.
XmRD TIL that a woman was trapped in her body for 6 years before anyone noticed. In 1966 someone saw that she was trying to smile after hearing a dirty joke. Julia Tavalaro learned to communicate by blinking, became an author, and died at age 68, 37 years after the stroke.
07Zy TIL Napoleon Bonaparte has a living heir