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TIL in 1990 Marilyn vos Savant wrote about the "Monty Hall problem" in her column in Parade magazine, correctly answering the statistical brainteaser. Thousands wrote to her to insist she was wrong, including many people with PhDs. Mythbusters even confirmed she was right in a 2011 episode.

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TIL that P.T. Barnum's famous elephant Jumbo got his name from the Swahili word for chief. It was the elephant who caused the word "jumbo" to mean something large - not the other way around.

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Wasn't this made into a movie?

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TIL that In 1979, two families escaped East Germany in a homemade hot air balloon. They flew for 28 minutes at −8 °C with no shelter as the gondola was just a clothesline railing. They landed just 10km from the border. The escape was planned out over 1 and 1/2 years and took 3 attempts.

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TIL that there is more water in the vapor and clouds above the Amazon rainforest than there is in the Amazon river

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TIL that 10s of farmers die each year from Grain entrapment, which is when a person is partially or fully submerged in grain, and cannot get out without assistance. In 2019, 67 incidents of grain entrapment took place, of which 39 were fatal.

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TIL Owls’ ears are placed asymmetrically – at different heights on the sides of their faces – so the sounds reach each ear at different times. This is essential to identifying the exact direction of their prey.

50 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics)

People in the ancient world were NOT stupid.

50 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics)

I know this comment adds absolutely nothing but that is really really cool

50 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics)

Power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutly ;o)

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TIL Charles Barkley was the first black baby born at a segregated, all-white town hospital in Leeds, Alabama and was in the first group of black students at his elementary school.

50 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics)

Aaaand he slept with kids in his bed.

50 Interesting Things People Didn’t Learn At School And Decided To Share Them In This Online Group (New Pics)

Spiders are creepmazing! I'm sure it's proper word. Or at least should be...

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Today I learned Dana Carvey underwent heart bypass surgery for a blocked coronary artery, but the surgeon operated on the wrong artery. Eventually he won a lawsuit against the hospital and won 7.5 million dollars, all of which was donated to charity.

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TIL when former NFL safety Dave Duerson took his life he left a note that read, “Please see that my brain is given to the NFL’s brain bank.” He shot himself in the chest rather than his head so as to preserve his brain. Doctors confirmed that he was suffering from chronic traumatic encephalopathy.