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Donald Trump drinks 12 cokes a day.
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TIL that a 19th century surgeon once tried to amputate a patient’s leg in under 150 seconds. In his haste, he also amputated his assistant’s fingers and slashed through the coat of a spectator. Both the patient and the assistant died of gangrene, and the spectator dropped dead of fright.
VMKB8
TIL On a US Navy submarine using the "emergency blow activator, or 'chicken switch,'" is "a last resort in emergency situations." "Throwing the switch immediately blasts large volumes of compressed air into all of a submarine's ballast tanks, bringing the boat to the surface as quickly as possible."
XEOYE
TIL in 2006 a woman farted on a plane and tried to cover up the smell by lighting matches. When passengers alerted crew they could smell burning the flight made an emergency landing and the FBI were called in to conduct an investigation
rRAr0
TIL Suicide from overwork (Karojisatsu) and death from overwork (Karaoshi) are so prevalent in Japan that they have words for them.
AnPn
TIL that the Nederlandsche Cocaïnefabriek sold cocaine to all sides of WWI, making tremendous profits for the company and neutral Holland.