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TIL about a boy who survived 45 minutes under icy water.

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7rReM TIL that a Maine restaurant will only take reservations by mail and not a phone, email or app after Boston Globe’s food critic once declared it “best Maine restaurant you may never be able to eat at.” Your sole option: snail-mailing them a letter with your name and contact info.
VAa8 TIL that Patrick Stewart lost all his hair at 18 and believed that no woman would ever be interested in him again
jpva TIL when the Platypus was first cataloged and discovered, it was dismissed as a prank by the explorers or a fake animal created by sewing two together, because nobody could believe it existed.
vamR TIL Chess grandmaster Judit Polgár beat a family friend at age 5 without looking at the board.
yQW6e TIL Yoko Ono, Nina Simone, Quincy Jones, Willie Nelson, Carol Burnett, James Brown, Joan Rivers, Gene Wilder, Julie Newmar, Roman Polanski, Conway Twitty, Larry King, and Emperor Akihito were all the same age, born in 1933.