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TIL that when Andre the giant passed away there was no crematorium large enough in France so his body had to be flown to America

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91O6 TIL a flight attendant named Vesna Vulović survived a 33,333 ft fall when the plane she was in broke apart from a bomb explosion. She holds a Guinness World Records, for surviving the highest fall without a parachute
5xPn TIL A respected medical examiner in Shelby County, Tennessee was found handcuffed to a window guard, wrapped in barbed wire, with a motion-sensitive bomb strapped to his chest and lye burns to his face. Detectives investigating the case concluded that he did it to himself.
LkLjv TIL of the MIT Blackjack Team - a group of students from MIT and other leading colleges that used card counting techniques to beat casinos at blackjack worldwide
E1YWx TIL In 2000, when several planets happened to be close to one another, astrologers predicted that there would be catastrophes, volcanic eruptions and tidal waves. This caused an entire sea-side village to panic and abandon their houses. Nothing predicted happened and their houses were burgled
neOg7 TIL that the expedition that in 1988 found the wreck of the SS Central America and recovered large amounts of gold from it were promptly sued by 39 insurance companies that had paid for damages after its sinking 1857