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Today I learned Jonestown Survivor Jackie Speier Who was Shot in the Head and Stomach After an Ambush, Survived and Crawled into a Forest Only to be Attacked by a Swarm of Fire Ants. She spent 22 hours Without Medical Help.

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nQ1B TIL that Walt Disney created multiple fake companies (like M.T. Lott Real Estate) to buy Florida land in the 1960s. This let him acquire what is now Disney World while avoiding suspicion and keeping prices low. The stores on Main Street shop windows are the names of those original companies.
KYyRa TIL Besides humans, the only mammal known to have a sense of rhythm is the Indri lemur of Madagascar.
yNAV TIL beers were put in six packs after determining that they were the most weight an average housewife could comfortably carry home.
QNjRE TIL Saddam Hussein's 14 year old grandson, was the last man standing in a gun battle against 200 US troops
R50K1 TIL that as of June 2022, Canada has a land border with Europe. After decades of disagreement – called the 'whisky war' – over who owned the unoccupied Hans Island between the Canadian territory of Nunavut and Greenland, the two governments agreed to split it down the middle.