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TIL Victoria Pierro, the 6-year-old girl that saved her entire family from a burning house in Swampscott, MA. Victoria woke when the fan she used stopped running and she could see fire outside her window. She alerted her entire family, including her firefighter dad, saving them all from the fire.

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v1LYj TIL that Johnny Cash was the first man outside the Soviet Union to learn of Stalin's death due to working as a Morse code operator, intercepting enemy military messages.
ep0Jn TIL that the Mandarin Chinese equivalent of the phrase "speak of the devil" is "shuo Cao Cao, Cao Cao dao," or "speak of Cao Cao and Cao Cao appears," referencing the 3rd century warlord and statesman Cao Cao.
bJoZ TIL that 6 days of not masturbating will have negligible effects on men’s testosterone levels, but on the 7th day it increases by 146%
LkYA0 TIL the fourth wall is called that because it refers to an imaginary “fourth wall” separating audience members from the cast in a theatre
pYNDb TIL there's a "grammar vigilante" who goes out in the dead of night correcting street signs and shop fronts where the apostrophes are in the wrong place