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TIL of Jesse Sharp, who died going over Niagra Falls in a kayak, confident enough that he had dinner reservations booked that evening. He refused to wear both a helmet and a life jacket.

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0dEY1 TIL the Roman Emperor Tiberius would execute boys whose sexual company he had grown tired of by having them thrown from a cliff into the sea while he watched. Some were tortured before being executed, and if they survived the fall, men waiting would break their bones with oars and boathooks.
5Zyk TIL southern schools are more segregated now than they were in 1968
eWJD TIL one of Jupiters 62 moons, Europa, is thought to have twice as much water as Planet Earth
yQ14l TIL no human has beaten a computer in a chess tournament in over 15 years
ep65g TIL that 54,000 tennis balls are used at Wimbledon each year.