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TIL that a man accidentally got shot in the head by a particle accelerator back in 1978 and is still alive

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VBJ6B TIL: The most predominantly Baptist state in the world is in Nagaland, India, where 75% of the population are Baptist Christians. Mississippi is 55% Baptist, by comparison.
4vGN TIL that during the Kuwaiti Oil Fires of 1991, Hungarian troops made a fire extinguisher out of a pair of jet engines. Mounted on a tank.
QJrEd TIL that the movies E.T. the Extra-terrestrial and Poltergeist were both inspired by an unproduced sci-fi horror film conceived by Steven Spielberg called Night Skies.
Y7gMd TIL in 2014, John Wick, then known as Scorn, had no distributor as late as 2 months before its release and came very close to going direct-to-DVD.
699BJ TIL about Butteri, Italian cowboys. When Buffalo Bill toured in Italy with his Wild West Show in 1890, the Butteri, led by Augusto Imperiali, challenged his troupe and won proving far more experience.