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TIL The term "Basket Case" comes from quadriplegic WWI soldiers who had to be carried around in a basket

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4XOgb TIL this 17-year-old boy built a nuclear reactor in his mom's backyard in 1994 and made the neighborhood radioactive
L980 TIL A British 19-year-old has officially changed his name to “Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined.” His grandmother is no longer speaking to him.
oRxB8 TIL that the earliest form of sushi, known as narezushi, was made by fermenting fish with rice and salt for preservation. It wasn't until the 19th century that the sushi we know today, such as nigiri sushi, was invented by a Tokyo-based chef named Hanaya Yohei.
awJYZ TIL the UK spent £2.5m in the 1980s to imprison a consensual gay S&M community. The dominant partners were charged with assault and the submissive partners were charged with aiding their own assault.
P19n TIL that Barn Owls can see an object at 2 meters with an illumination of .00000073 foot candles. This is equivalent to a person seeing an object by the light of a match a mile away.