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TIL The Ringer includes about 150 disabled athletes and actors — the largest population of intellectual disabled people ever portrayed in a movie

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v16KB TIL that Australia's Parliamentary Entitlements Act 1990 entitles ALL Australians to a free portrait of the Queen
6bom TIL of Roy Benavidez, a soldier from Vietnam who saved a trapped patrol although getting shot multiple times. Later he was thought dead, and when the doctor was zipping the body bag, Roy managed to spit on his face. Roy had 37 separate bullet, bayonet and shrapnel wounds.
EL4X TIL that a woman survived a 14,500 foot fall while skydiving. Her parachute failed to deploy, and she landed on a mound of fire ants. After being stung 100+ times, the adrenaline rush was enough to keep her heart beating.
W7d8Y TIL that in 1859 Joshua Norton, a businessman from San Francisco who had to file for bankruptcy the previous year, proclaimed himself "Emperor of the United States".
omRL TIL that Teflon (PTFE) is the only substance that a gecko cannot climb.