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TIL about 2yr old Australian Sophie Delezio who suffered 3rd deg burns to 85% of her body, lost both feet, one hand and an ear when an older driver crashed into her preschool. 3yrs later her wheelchair was hit on a pedestrian crossing by a different older driver causing new serious injuries.

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b9de9 TIL there was an original ending in the film "Army of Darkness", where Bruce Campbell's character wakes up in a future where civilization is destroyed after miscalculating the number of potions needed to properly return to his own time. Universal Pictures rejected it as too depressing and negative.
xmyD TIL That the head of the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy is called the First Sea Lord.
x6vQk TIL Americans are twice as likely to kill themselves than be killed by another person
A6Ad TIL Headaches are actually the structures around the brain hurting, not the brain tissue, as the brain has no pain receptors
JQk TIL George S. Patton participated in the first ever modern pentathlon Summer 1912 Olympics. In the pistol shooting competition, controversy came about because he said the holes in the paper were so big he shot through the some spot twice. It was credited as a miss.