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TIL Arnold Palmer and Mister Rogers were high school classmates.

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jNMdE TIL of Albert Stevens, a house painter that was unwittingly injected with plutonium and survived the highest known dose of radiation in any human
W7Za9 TIL that about 25% of the decline of casual sex among young men since 2007 can be explained by video games.
vPKKR TIL in 2018, a woman driving a Honda Accord was in a crash where everyone but her survived. Because a faulty Takata airbag ruptured, she was struck by bursted metal pieces, causing a 15cm by 8cm gaping wound to her left temple, a fractured skull and bruising and bleeding on her brain
MZXb TIL that planting swastikas in the forests of Germany was “a fad among National Socialist foresters” during the Nazi period and nobody noticed them until decades later.
e0kg TIL that astronauts who live in space for extended periods of time are at risk for developing solipsism syndrome- “a psychological state in which a person feels that the world is not external to his or her mind.”