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TIL Lori Coble died of stage 4 brain cancer. In 2007, Lori and her husband Chris lost their son and 2 daughters in a massice car crash, then she gave birth to triplets in 2008 (a boy and 2 girls), and the couple appeared on Oprah in 2010 to discuss their tragedy and miracle.

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6EPew TIL that there was a successful chess-playing machine called "The Turk" constructed in late 18th century. Its secret, a chess master inside, wasn't revealed for almost a century.
VE4Z TIL In the 1500s, they used to use urine to tan animal skins, so families used to all pee in a pot & then once a day it was taken & sold to the tannery, making you “Piss Poor” if you did it to survive.
mGrR TIL the amount of matter converted to energy in the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima was about 700 milligrams, less than one-third the mass of a U.S. dime.
LM10 TIL that when photographer Yousef Karsh took a photo of Winston Churchill, Yousef took the cigar straight from Churchills mouth and took the photo. This was the grumpy result.
ne6OG TIL when you involuntarily yell over loud noise, that’s an example of the Lombard effect (the involuntary tendency of speakers to increase their vocal effort when speaking in loud noise to enhance the audibility of their voice).