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TIL antimatter is real

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GRwN TIL King John of Bohemia was blind, and fought and eventually died in battle where he apparently just flailed his sword around like a mad man. He was reported to have said. “Let it never be the case that a Bohemian king runs [from a fight]!”
4k0ja TIL- Famous writer Larry Niven advised homeland security to spread rumors in Spanish within the Latino community that emergency rooms are killing patients in order to harvest their organs for transplants.
4XGVw Til: The vast majority(79-91% depending on sources) of plastic has never been recycled, and plastic recycling is largely a marketing ploy to ease public perception of plastic producing companies
0J7N TIL In 1995 a Marine fell overboard his ship unnoticed. He survived by treading water for 3 days until a Pakistani fishing boat found him.
oB07W TIL that in Full Metal Jacket Stanley Kubrick asked Matthew Modine (who played Joker) to keep a running photo diary of the filming over two years.