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TIL in a 3-day-long 2002 theater hostage situation, Russian forces pumped an unknown gas into the ventilation system that caused everyone inside to fall unconscious. Troops were able to kill the 40 militants while they were blacked out, saving nearly 800 people with minimal casualties.

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JEo4 TIL Stephen King kept a severe alcohol and cocaine addiction hidden from his family for eight years. He claims he kept the addiction well-hidden but eventually, “…the books [started] to show it after a while. ‘Misery’ is a book about cocaine. Annie Wilkes is cocaine. She was my number-one fan.”
Y79MZ TIL In 1993, Lawyer Garry Hoy was giving a tour to students when he decided to run head first against a piece of glass to prove how strong it was. He had done this many times, but on this occasion the window popped out and he fell to his death from the 24th floor.
xV4aD TIL that in some regions of Bangladesh, people fish using otters. Humans have used otters to fish for over 1400 years.
E11kp TIL 84% of American vegetarians and vegans, abandon their diet, returning back to meat in under a year.
5YnBp TIL that many WW1 soldiers on the Western front spontaneously declared truces for Christmas 1914. On both sides, they left their trenches to bury their dead, hold church services, and trade cigars and other small goods in no man’s land.