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TIL After a heart attack, the body increases sleep time in order to limit heart inflammation and damage

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pYxXQ TIL about Philippine Airlines Flight 812. A passenger hijacked the plane and robbed the other passengers. He tried escaping using a homemade parachute, but he couldn't jump and needed a flight attendant to give him a push. He was killed after his parachute failed to open. Everyone else was unharmed.
Y7xXZ TIL Kurt Cobain's Daughter Married Tony Hawk's Son
E6Xx TIL 24 out of the 56 countries and states of Africa are in a war or military conflict
nW4Y7 TIL that the teeth of a Lobster are located in their stomach. Their food is chewed in their stomach “between three grinding surfaces that look like molar surfaces.”
KYZo9 TIL that the youngest American to serve in the military in WW2 was Calvin Graham, age 12. He served in the US Navy and fought at Guadalcanal, was awarded 8 medals which were subsequently stripped when his mother saw him on a news reel and told the Navy his real age.