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TIL that Michael Caine is a Korean War veteran

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XRaQ TIL A man who suffered from extreme OCD attempted suicide by shooting himself in the head…he survived and the bullet lodged in the part of the brain where OCD originates thus curing him.
mxj4x TIL about American stunt woman Kitty O'Neil. She set the world record for the fastest quarter mile in a hydrogen peroxide powered car.
l7Xb5 TIL in 1919 Yankees baseball player Ping Bodie had a spaghetti eating contest with Percy the ostrich and won after Percy passed out after eating 11 plates of spaghetti.
oGJ8 TIL Mount Mitchell, highest in the eastern US, is named after Elisha Mitchell, geologist and climber. He fell to his death at the nearby waterfall, now named “Mitchell Falls.”
w0m1 TIL people used to be given malaria to cure syphilis. The syphilis was unable to survive the high temperature from the malaria induced fever.