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TIL Walter Reed earned 2 MDs before his 20th brithday. He joined the Army because no one took him seriously because of his youth.

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J1WPk TIL Kenny Vaccaro, a former 15th OVR pick in the 2013 Draft retired at age 30 to “pursue a career in E Sports”. No videos have been uploaded to his channel in 2+ years and in February 2025, he was ordered to pay a former employee over $245,000 in a Fraud case
XEypj TIL a web developer bought the domain name milk.com in 1994, then refused to sell any part of it to industry for less than $10 million. In 2021 the domain has still not been sold.
rRvod TIL da Vinci's The Last Supper painting (1498) is 29 feet wide and 23 feet tall, and around 1652 a door was cut through part of it, destroying the area in which Jesus's feet were depicted.
VWKZ TIL in 1953, a North Korean fighter pilot defected to South Korea with his MiG-15 and was rewarded $100,000 from the United States.
koVW TIL that even though people correlate the upside down cross with Satan, it actually symbolizes how peter didn’t want to be crucified in the same manner as Jesus.