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TIL Disney owns 35 of the 40 college football bowl games.

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R7ZZj TIL about a South Vietnam Pilot Who Performed a Daring Feat To Save His Family by landing a 2-Seater Cessna on an American aircraft carrier while escaping South Vietnam on its last full day as a country.
4Xo7g TIL 'The Father of Modern Gynecology', James Marion Sims, perfected his surgical techniques by operating without anesthesia on enslaved black women.
XEwD TIL a hockey player had his throat slit open during a game, and survived. (NSFL)
wLVEW TIL that scientists were able to use a spinach leaf as scaffolding to build a mini working human heart.
yQB1v TIL 6 kids were poisoned in 1963 from wearing new, unwashed jeans that had been exposed to pesticide. (2 boys whose pants were washed before wearing them did not get sick)