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TIL In 2014 a New York hospital came under fire after incorrectly declaring a woman as brain dead following a drug overdose. The woman awoke shortly after being taken to the operating room for organ harvesting.

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e0Ook TIL about The Legend of Jon Dowd. Due to Barry Bones not allowing his likeness in MVP Baseball 2005 they created a player using his attributes and the name of an assistant producer. His ability in the game led him to be regarded as one of the best virtual athletes of all time.
A4QB TIL - When Blackbeard captured the ship that would become Queen Anne’s Revenge, there 455 African slaves on board. Many of the African slaves would go on to become pirates rather than continue to be slaves. At the time of Blackbeard’s death, nearly one-third of his total crew were former slaves.
DyZV TIL of Stanley Meyer who claimed to invent a water fuel cell which would allow cars to be powered by water. In 1998, while dining with 2 supposed investors, Meyer ran outside saying “They poisoned me” and died.
Yp8mx TIL of Jaycee Dugard, an 11-year old girl who was kidnapped in 1991 only to be found when her kidnapper walked into a school in 2009 with two young girls claiming they were his daughters. They were in fact his daughters, their mother being Jaycee; a prisoner for 18 years and a mother at 14.
Z8yM4 TIL that Teddy Roosevelt summited the Matterhorn in 1881, while on his honeymoon in Switzerland. He wrote his sister, "It was like going up and down enormous stairs on your hands and knees for nine hours."