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TIL that an ex-Gurkha soldier named Bishnu Shrestha took on 40 robbers single-handedly on a train to prevent a stranger from being raped armed with just a khukuri.

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Y7nA TIL Quentin Tarantino let The Man with the Iron Fist use his name purely for advertisement purposes even though he has almost nothing to do with the actual film
PYPpO TIL Christopher Reeve's accident was so severe that he needed surgery to reattach his skull and spine. While awaiting the surgery, a man in a blue hat and yellow scrubs met with him, jokingly claiming he was a proctologist and that Reeves needed a rectal exam. That man was Robin Williams.
g0py TIL there is a Wolfenstein 3D clone where you play as Noah and put animals to sleep on the Ark. It is the only commercially released SNES game that was not licensed, and used a hack to bypass Nintendo’s DRM.
xJj5 TIL the highest temperature ever set by humans was produced in the Large Hadron Collider in 2012. It was close to 10 trillion degrees farenheit, over 370,000 times the temperature of the sun’s core.
PJE TIL that The Avengers caused a notable increase in shawarma sales.