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TIL Zebras are responsible for more injuries to US zookeepers than any other animal.

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vZX4 TIL Lil Wayne had his life saved by an off duty police officer who drove him to the hospital after the rapper accidentally shot himself as a child.
xOQ5 TIL astronomers have recently discovered a potentially habitable planet just 16 light-years away from Earth
4lD6 TIL that Tul Bahadur Pun was a Gurkha who won the Victoria Cross, Britain’s highest award for Valor in combat in WWII, and was denied a visa to live there because he ‘failed to demonstrate strong ties to the UK.’
l79mK TIL Kamikaze Pilots were not involved with Pearl Harbor, only 1 Japanese pilot deliberately flew into a target after taking severe damage to their aircraft.
MYEB TIL that the word ‘plastic’ in 'plastic surgery’ is in no way a reference to the petroleum based engineered material, but actually denotes 'sculpting or reshaping’, from the Greek derived word 'πλαστική’ (plastikē), “the art of modelling” of malleable flesh.