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TIL: There Is A Town Which Is Literally Living Under A Rock

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wL10J TIL about Shigeru Yokosawa, a sixty-year-old hospital admin who sacrificed his life by, in the face of an approaching tsunami, rushing to retrieve the hospital's satellite phone. The phone he saved became his colleagues' only lifeline to the outside world after the disaster.
neMYd TIL that Keanu Reeves is determined to not let his tragic life deter him from helping society and that he secretly funds Children’s Hospitals, cancer research, and much more
rYGo TIL During his burglary career, Malcolm X once played Russian roulette, pulling the trigger three times in a row to convince his partners in crime that he was not afraid to die.
edQL TIL that someone survived a cardiac arrest and 2 hours and 45 min of CPR thanks to the help of bystanders and an automatic chest-compression system.
9Y9d6 TIL that Fredric Baur, inventor of the Pringles can, had (at his request) his ashes interred in one. It was Original flavor.