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TIL Raul “Mike” Vargas survived over 90min inside the Station Nightclub fire. While trying to escape he fell and was buried under a 5ft tall pile of bodies. The bodies helped insulate him from the fire and he ended up walking out with only a few burns on his legs

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R78rl TIL Robin Williams, as a stand up comedian, would use other comedians material, and it got to the point, that if a comedian saw Williams in the audience of a comedy club, they would stop their act immediately to prevent Williams from writing down their best jokes.
j6eAp TIL in 1760s, Lazzaro Spallanzani demonstrated the first contraception and artificial insemination by fitting male frogs with tight-fitting taffeta pants. Fertilization occurred only when they retrieved semen that had been discharged into the pants and painted it onto the eggs.
9LDM TIL There was a portuguese man that saved more jews during the WWII than Schindler. He saved 30 000 jews and was punished by his government for doing so. He died in misery, striped of all his titles and money.
nW9y7 TIL of John Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland. Only one servant saw him for two decades; no one else, not even his doctor. He built 15 miles of tunnels under his estate including a giant ballroom that never had dances. Every room in his mansion and everywhere underground was painted pink.
dDQpK TIL That in 2013 a 28 year old woman in Chembur, India had to undergo emergency surgery to remove a 'football sized' fecal mass after she had not had a bowel movement for 45 days.