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TIL in 1987 Walter Payton who played for the Chicago Bears, accidentally shot a man in the knee while holding a collectors handgun that he was unaware of being loaded.

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aw4ZJ TIL 9 year old Rachel Beckwith started a $300 fundraiser for clean water. She asked friends and family to donate $9 instead of B-day presents. She only raised $220, and sadly died in a car accident soon after. Her story spread, her $220 grew to $1.2 million, providing clean water to 37,770 people.
m1w6R TIL Why the Can Opener Wasn’t Invented Until Almost 50 Years After the Can
060A TIL - After the end of WW II, the Allies sold captured Enigma machines, still widely considered secure, to developing countries. These countries did not know that the machine had been broken, their supposedly secure communications were being read regularly by the major Western intelligence agencies
Eg8Nx TIL that the sequel to Puss in Boots was originally going to be titled Puss in Boots 2: Nine Lives & 40 Thieves.
grrvW TIL that there is a deleted scene in the movie “Goonies” where they get attacked by a giant, killer octopus