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TIL in 2015, a 70 year old man in China spent 57 days in the hospital after a panda arrived at his farm and attacked him.

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9Yeep TIL that the first two ironclad ships, one from each side during the civil war, battled for hours because their cannon shots proved entirely ineffectual against each other's iron armor. After a long period of fighting, both ships retreated to their respective ports.
7r7N7 TIL in 1817 an English man named Abraham Thornton successfully avoided a murder charge by demanding "trial by battle." It turned out that the practice was still technically allowed under the law despite having not been used for hundreds of years. Parliament finally abolished it one year later.
4kv8X TIL chicken noodle soup has actual healing properties. After consuming, white blood cells behave differently and create an anti-inflammatory response that can help with upper respiratory issues (ie: the common cold)
GAL9j TIL in 2014, a woman was held in jail for one month after police mistook sauce from a can of SpaghettiOs on a spoon in her purse for meth. The arresting officer said he “found it strange” that Huff would eat SpaghettiOs and put the spoon in her purse
b1eE TIL An American Airforce Sergeant found a dead General while he was on his way to work at area 25, a nuclear test area in Nevada. It turns out the General had ejected while flying a captured Russian Mig at Mach 2. The force of the air at that speed instantly snapped his neck and killed him.