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TIL Chicago Blackhawks called on a 36 year-old accountant and fan to serve as Emergency goalie after starter and backups were injured. He played in the third period and had 7 saves with a save percentage of 1.000

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YpgbB TIL about the Gympie Gympie bush (or “Suicide Tree”). It delivers a sting described as “like being burnt with hot acid and electrocuted at the same time”. One man was stung and after 3 weeks of agony, was driven “as mad as a cut snake”. Another shot himself after using the leaves as toilet paper.
15w7 TIL Las Vegas is teetering on the edge of full on water emergency and has instituted the nations harshest water restrictions. Meanwhile the fountains at the Bellagio use 12,000,000 gal. of drinking water per year because it looks pretty.
AE74 TIL there is a sport that combines chess and boxing. It’s called chessboxing
vP5JR TIL: Nigeria’s federal medical authority mantains a public list of registered quacks.
VMX6k TIL there is a 29 story skyscraper in Manhattan that has no windows, and was originally designed to withstand a nuclear blast