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TIL that Theodore Roosevelt was shot during a 1912 presidential campaign speech but still continued to deliver his two hour speech before seeking medical help.

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mjoR TIL That when people in love stare into each other’s eyes, their heartbeats synchronize
W7JZo TIL that cotton, bearing similarities to wool, was once thought to be harvested from a plant described as "a wonderful tree which bore tiny lambs on the endes of its branches. These branches were so pliable that they bent down to allow the lambs to feed when they are hungry"
6Ew47 TIL about the Ice block expedition of 1959. Glassvatt successfully transported 3 tons of ice from Mo i Rana to Libreville without any refrigeration , losing only 11% of ice weight in the journey which took 27 days to complete over 10,000 km(~6200miles).
JYAx1 TIL that Andrei Chikatilo, who violently murdered 52 people in the Soviet Union from 1978-90, was initially cleared as a suspect in 1984 because his blood type was A while the semen found at the crime scenes was AB. His second arrest revealed his blood and semen belonged to different blood groups.
nWP1G TIL in 2013, 20 people were injured, with 7 sent to the hospital, after a promotional stunt by LG in Seoul went wrong. LG released 100 helium balloons, each with a free smartphone voucher for a phone that retailed at $851. Customers arrived with BB guns (to shoot the balloons) and knives on sticks.