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TIL: During the filming of 'Dexter,' actor Jimmy Smits accidentally grabbed a real knife and stabbed a stuntman in the chest; the stuntman survived unharmed due to the blade hitting a post-it note sized piece of plastic covering his heart.

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oRp1r TIL the Notre Dame fire disaster was made worse because a guard was sent to investigate, but to the wrong location where he found no fire. The alarm system was not designed to automatically notify the fire brigade
XEO1P TIL that the eagle featured on U.S. currency was modeled on a real bald eagle named Peter who used to live on top of the U.S. Mint. He died in 1836 but, like many animals whose admirers just can't let go, Peter was stuffed and is still on display inside the very building upon which he once nested.
R7NQ6 TIL a sheepdog made a 240-mile journey home to his birthplace in Wales after escaping from his new home in Cumbria. He was sent to the Cumbrian farm to work but turned up on the doorstep of his original owners 12 days later, limping and a little thinner than before, but in otherwise good condition.
X0kAQ TIL the town of Center in North Dakota was named in 1902 because of its proximity to the center of Oliver County. In 2017 geography proffessor Peter Rogerson used azimuthal equidistant projection to calculate the geographical center of North America only to discover it was Center, North Dakota.
agdb TIL: Blue Whales are the largest animal to have ever lived on Earth—and they’re getting bigger.