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TIL about the “Oh-My-God” particle, which, on the night of October 15, 1991, streaked across the Utah sky traveling at 99.99999999999999999999951% the speed of light with 320 exa-electron volts (EeV) of energy

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QJMXM TIL a man born premature with cerebral palsy, was unable to swallow on his own until the age of 1, is blind, was unable to speak or walk until the age of 16, began playing Tchaikovsky's Concerto No.1 on piano in the middle of the night at age 16. He now can play any song after hearing it only once.
N78ZP TIL Adolf Hitler had a ‘pet' alligator named Saturn who died only recently in a Russian Zoo
JpAQ TIL a deaf man was moving some boxes at a friend’s house when Hawthorne, CA police arrived suspecting he was robbing the home. When the man tried to use American Sign language to tell the cops he was deaf, he was tased and beaten unconscious, then charged with assault (charges were later dropped)
WkoVA TIL that in 1923 a horse jockey named Frank Hayes died of a heart attack mid-race, but technically still won because his body was still on the horse. This was also his first win.
PgYG TIL that a 456 pound man starved himself for a year and 17 days, only surviving off his own body fat, yeast, multivitamins and potassium supplements. After, he weighed just 180 pounds.