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TIL in 2014, an 8-year-old boy named Tyler Doohan, saved 6 members of his family from his burning house before finally succumbing to the fire himself while trying to save the last victim, his disabled grandfather.

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e04BE TIL of the song “prisencolinensinainciusol”. It topped the Italian charts in the 70s, despite the lyrics being absolute nonsensical gibberish. It was meant to illustrate what American English sounds like to non-English speakers.
8P9Z TIL that mentally doing a task makes you better at it. You can train your music skills or your muscles just by imagining the training. Your mind can barely tell the difference.
yVbYa TIL the last on-screen appearance Orson Welles ever made was on the TV show Moonlighting, where he read an introduction to assure audiences that the sudden shift to black-and-white is not a sign there is something wrong with their televisions.
oBALR TIL Narcissistic - A disorder in which a person has an inflated sense of self-importance. They lack empathy for others.
wL5eE TIL that right before launching the two Voyagers, NASA scientists used kitchen-grade aluminum foil to cover critical parts of the probes to protect it from unanticipated radiation at Jupiter. It worked.