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TIL when three men with machetes came into an African orphanage at night, a man named Omari took a hammer to fight all three at once. He survived after getting hit in the face with a machete, and saved all of the children. His story, first shared on Reddit, helped raise $83,000 for the orphanage.

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59GD TIL that although pandas eat bamboo almost exclusively, they actually have the digestive systems of carnivores
Lk5Em TIL that there is a certain type of Australian beetle which is threatened with exctinction because the male beetles try to have sex with beer bottles instead of females.
ALyd TIL George Lucas paid a fine and resigned from the DGA after they had told him to stick to conventional opening credits for “Star Wars” (1977)
J1ayl TIL Asian studies major Alex Sigley became interested in North Korea while studying at Shanghai's Fudan University where he first met North Koreans. He later transferred to Kim Il Sung university, one of three students from Western nations and stayed there for more than a year until he was detained
R7PB9 Today I learned of the severed feet of Salish Sea in the Pacific Northwest. Since 2007 at least 20 human feet have washed up on shore. It has been blamed on everything from a serial killer to plane crashes to a tsunami with the most likely explanation being some combination of these.