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TIL there is a Jeff Goldblum day every July 13th in Pittsburgh

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69RKJ TIL of Hippoboscoidea, a superfamily of flies that includes the non-flying 'bat-flies', used to be called Pupipara because the larva grows inside their mother who lays downs pupas instead of eggs.
8xb8 TIL Don Karkos lost his eyesight due to shrapnel from a grenade in WWII. 64 years later he was kicked in the head by a horse in the exact spot the shrapnel had been. Which cause him to regain his eyesight.
6EJKW TIL that the lookout who first spotted the iceberg that sank the Titanic survived the sinking and went on to serve in the merchant navy in WWI and WWII. Shortly after Christmas in 1964, at the age of 77, his wife died, he was evicted from his house and he hanged himself.
nedxd TIL The current owner of the "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang" flying car is director Peter Jackson. He could would drive cast members of The Hobbit films around in the car while playing the main theme song through a sound system.
b64vN TIL Catholic Church has a birthday. Pentecost is the birthday of the Catholic Church.