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TIL the deadliest conflict since the Second World War was the Second Congo War (1998 - 2003) which has caused >5 million deaths. Hostilities have not ended yet today in 2018.

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5VNQ TIL surgeons hold scissors with their thumb and ring fingers.
PYgpJ TIL that Leonardo da Vinci would buy animals at the market just to set them free, in the name of animal rights.
rRJY4 TIL about Dr. Leonoid Rogozov, a physician who took part in an antarctic expedition in 1961, developed appendicitis and successfully performed a self-appendectomy with the help of a driver and meteorologist at their Antarctic research station.
MeM4B TIL that right before he boarded his ship, cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov said, “I'm not going to make it back from this flight.” He became the first person ever to die on a mission to space.
pY6VZ TIL about the Spanish composer Enrique Granados who basically lived out the real life version of the end of Titanic when a ship he was on was torpedoed by a German submarine and his wife couldn't fit on the life raft.