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TIL that Senator Cory Booker is cousins with RuPaul

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VB5gB TIL in 2006 a man went to a hospital complaining about a headache & was found to have 12 nails (up to 2 inches in length) embedded in his skull from a suicide attempt. Although the nails did not pierce any major blood vessel or the brain stem & he survived with no serious lasting physical effects.
DnAv TIL The first man to fly and the first man to walk on the moon were alive at the same time. Neil Armstrong was 17 when Orville Wright died.
wG97 TIL there is a Super Smash Bros fanfic that is over 3x longer than the entire Harry Potter series
5Vd79 TIL: Brain scans show that dogs are as conscious as human children
PYQ9e TIL that after hearing Is This It by The Strokes, The Killers scrapped nearly all the songs they were working on, with the only exception being "Mr. Brightside"