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TIL gunshot wounds can cause lead poisoning years later from tiny lead fragments in the bone leaching into the body

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oRJ0L TIL about Ssgt Reckless, a beer drinking war horse who, amoung other honors, had 2 Purple Hearts, and had to essentially be smuggled to the US after the Korean War when officials expressed preferences to leaving her behind or "destroying" her.
xBpD TIL the world’s first fully-painted, feature-length film is an animated movie about the life of Vincent van Gogh made up of 56,800 stop-motion paintings. Years in the making, it is scheduled to open this summer on the 125th anniversary of his death.
wLZB1 TIL singer Tim Storms holds the world records for lowest note produced by a human and widest vocal range. He has a vocal range of 10 octaves and some of his sounds are so low they can't be perceived by the human ear.
JY46V TIL in 1964 an icy runway caused a taxiing B-58 bomber to flop over and topple onto its fuel tanks. This ignited 14,000 gallons of blended gasoline and kerosene and barbecued the bomber’s nuclear payload…including a 9-megaton bomb powerful enough to flash fry any exposed human within 20 miles.
dD9GZ TIL I learned that in 2003, a sequel to the 1961 episode of the Twilight Zone "Its a Good Life" was made, starring the originals, Chloris Leachman and Billy Mumy.