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TIL baseball player Ricky Henderson got a frostbite in August. The injury was due to him leaving an ice pack on his foot for too long

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xVpLg TIL The biggest tuna ever recorded weighed an incredible 1,496 pounds! Caught on October 26, 1979, fishing with Capt. Eric Samson aboard Lady and Misty out of Port Hood, Nova Scotia.
a8v99 TIL The "Nigerian Prince" scam is written intentionally bad to avoid wasting the scammer's time with false positives that end up going nowhere, and focus solely on the most gullible individuals
awRjy TIL in June 2020, 20-year-old student Alexander Kearns committed suicide after the interface of the trading app Robinhood lead him to believe he owed $730,000, that he didn't, with the note, "How was a 20-year-old with no income able to get assigned almost a million dollars' worth of leverage?"
Rb6Q TIL that Guy Fawkes’ assassination attempt was not for political ideologies but mainly for religious ones
p81ne TIL: Prior to the Beijing Olympic games, China used contreversial weather manipulation techniques to ensure that there would be no rain during the opening ceremony. Its cloud-seeding weapons included 6,781 artillery guns and 4,110 rocket launchers.