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TIL 90% of Lighting Strike victims survive.

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J1pnk TIL several US cases of "mad cow disease" may have come instead from eating squirrel brains. Popular recipes apparently include scrambled brains 'n eggs, and a brains 'n veggie stew called "burgoo".
YWmd TIL the test pilot for the first american jet plane wore a Gorilla mask, a Durby hat, and a Cigar just to mess with other pilots he buzzed. The Pilots were then convinced they were crazy for having seen a Airplane without a propeller with a monkey at the controls.
njpB TIL: In 1998 NASA grew Insulin in space. Researchers found that it was so effective it could reduce Insulin intake from 1-3 times per day to once every 3 days.
9AM6 TIL that the island of St. Kilda in Scotland was so isolated that its people had not heard of Britain’s king when it was rediscovered in 1746, and still practiced Druidism into the 19th century.
DQNZJ TIL that Juan Pujol Garcia was awarded both the Iron Cross and the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire during WW2, fooling the Nazis as a double agent.