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TIL of Roy Benavidez. Whilst deployed in Vietnam, he responded to a distress call and jumped out of a helicopter with a medical bag, armed with only a knife. After a 6-hour fight with the enemy battalion, he had a total of 37 separate bullet, bayonet, and shrapnel wounds. He saved at least 8 men.

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N7BvN TIL Since 2017, when Waymo, began testing self-driving vans in Chandler, Arizona, Police have responded to dozens of calls regarding people threatening and harassing them. People have thrown rocks at Waymos, slashed a tire, chased them, tried to run them off the road and aimed a gun at one of them
7Lyx TIL of Robert Peace, a ‘black guy from the hood’ who ended up graduating from Yale with honors in molecular biophysics and biochemistry, moving back to his 'hood’ and teaching biology at his old highschool, engineering his own strain of Marijuana and getting killed over a drug deal
xZd0 TIL that Soviet Russia had a movie genre called Eastern(Ostern) which was their version of the Western genre, with stories taking place in the Asian part of Russia
Y7OkB TIL that Rocky Marciano is the only boxer to have stopped every opponent, that he faced for the World Heavyweight Championship.
16raO TIL about the Jumping Frenchmen of Maine, who exhibited a rare disorder which entails an exaggerated startle reflex described as an uncontrollable "jump". Studies recorded individuals who would obey any command given suddenly, even if it meant striking a loved one.