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TIL about Chris Lee Burden, an American performance artist most well known for his work Shoot (1971), in which he had a friend shoot him in the arm using a small-caliber rifle.

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l7KMr TIL the "Sugar in the fuel tank to destroy an engine" is largely a myth. Only extremely large amounts of any foreign substamce might clog the filters (reposted for "clarity").
MeOjB TIL that Roseanne Barr was hit by a car at age 16, and the hood ornament went into her brain and through her skull. Her behavior changed so radically that she was institutionalized for eight months at Utah State Hospital, where she had a baby, which she gave up for adoption.
dDe7Z TIL - A paleobiologist said "Our best guess is that the mammal was in the middle of attacking the dinosaur," about a recently found fossil of a mammal biting a dinosaur.
D1RD TIL there is a political party in Switzerland, called the “Anti Powerpoint Party”, that works to decrease the use of Powerpoint in professional presentations.
ADV7g TIL British Airways used to have a fleet of Chinook Helicopters. One was involved in Europe's most deadly helicopter crash in 1986.