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TIL in 1908 a meteorite over Siberia exploded with the force of a 12 megaton bomb, flattened 80 million trees, and likely killed at least three people.

by whatilearned October 16, 2021, 12:52 am

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TIL a 25-barrel gun was used in an assassination attempt on the King of France in 1835. It fired over 400 projectiles at once and killed 18 people. The assassin was badly injured by exploding barrels, and tracked down by the trail of blood.

by whatilearned October 15, 2021, 1:47 pm

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TIL there is a special mud collected by one family from a secret location that is used by the MLB and NFL to prepare all game balls. After Roy Chapman was killed by a baseball pitch in 1920, the MLB made it a rule to prepare all new balls with mud to remove their shine and improve grip.

by whatilearned October 15, 2021, 2:18 am

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TIL that the head of snake can still independently bite and envenomate people after being decapitated: A Texas man was nearly killed in a “headless snake attack” when he went to retrieve the head of a rattlesnake he had killed with a shovel

by whatilearned October 14, 2021, 11:11 am

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TIL It’s believed that the plane crash that killed John Denver on Oct 12 1997 was due in part to him running out of fuel during flight, being unable to see his fuel gauge, and a design flaw in accessing his reserve fuel tank switch.

by whatilearned October 12, 2021, 3:49 pm

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TIL Archduke Ferdinand survived an initial assassination attempt on the day he was killed when a grenade bounced off his convertible. He escaped unharmed, but later wanted to visit the wounded and that is when his car stalled next to one of the assassins, who happened to be nearby.

by whatilearned October 12, 2021, 2:39 pm

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TIL Aaron Hernandez’s former cellmate claimed that Hernandez had joked about a fourth murder. Hernandez allegedly hired people to kill Odin Lloyd, but they unintentionally killed Jordan Miller, a man who looked like Lloyd.

by whatilearned October 11, 2021, 5:40 pm

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TIL about electrified coral reefs. It was discovered that if you charge an artificial reef with electricity, the coral can grow up to five times faster. In the Maldives, electrified reefs have survived bleaching events that killed almost all of the nearby natural reefs.

by whatilearned October 10, 2021, 8:05 pm

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TIL of the Burnden Park Disaster, a crowd crush at a football match in Bolton, England in 1946 in which 33 people were killed. 30 minutes after the crush, with the dead laying at the side of the pitch, the game restarted.

by whatilearned October 7, 2021, 7:11 am

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TIL that Boris Pasternak (the author or Doctor Zhivago) was almost killed in the great purge, 20 years before he wrote his famous novel. He was only saved at the last moment when Stalin himself crossed his name off the list with the note “leave that fool alone”.

by whatilearned October 4, 2021, 11:33 pm

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TIL Bahia Bakari, a 12 year old French girl, was the sole survivor of Airbus A310 plane crash in the Indian Ocean that killed 152. She could barely swim and had no life vest, but clung to a piece of aircraft wreckage for 9 hours before being rescued

by whatilearned October 4, 2021, 12:48 am

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TIL the most common test for toothpaste is the rat caries test, where eight-day-old rat pups have their teeth brushed in a lab and are then killed after three weeks to have their jaws ripped out to be studied under a microscope.

by whatilearned October 3, 2021, 3:11 am

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