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TIL of Zeer Pot, a refrigeration tool that doesn't require electricity extending usable life of corps to weeks.

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Ze4R TIL; The inventor of the baseball glove, Canadian Arthur Irwin, created the glove after breaking two fingers on his left hand. When he died, it was discovered that he had two families unbeknownst to each other. One in Boston and the other in New York
o96R TIL Germany secretly placed a weather station in Canada during World War 2. It wasn’t discovered until the 70’s.
dD4r9 TIL about TK, a boy who experienced total brain death at age 4 but was kept alive for another 20 years. His body grew as he aged but he never regained awareness. His autopsy showed nothing recognizable as brain.
gpy8 TIL of Operation Paul Bunyan which included 60 US troops, 64 South Korean Special Forces troops, 7 attack heli’s, an array of attack jets, nuclear ready B-52 bombers, and 12,00 troops on stand-by to finish cutting down a tree after North Korean soldiers killed 2 US soldiers cutting a tree.
Mn1B TIL There is a hotel in Sweden built entirely out of ice and it is rebuilt every year