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TIL Molly Pitcher manned a cannon during the Revolutionary War when her husband fainted from heat stroke or injury. She didn’t back down, even when a cannonball shot the skirt from between her legs.

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5Yd8D TIL that horseshoe crab blood, costing $60,000 per gallon, is unique and is integral in FDA testing. This has led to a massive effort by scientists to try to conserve this invaluable resource.
R779 TIL Scientists have actually performed “succesful” head/brain transplants. “When the newly attached monkey woke up, he tried to bite off the finger of an attending doctor, and everyone cheered.”
MJj7 TIL Dominos Pizza stopped using its “Avoid The Noid” mascot because a 22 yr old paranoid schizophrenic named Kenneth Noid–thinking he was the real Noid–took 2 employees hostage with a .357 magnum revolver.
y068 TIL that when the Dutch found the Dodo Birds, they named them “Dodaersen”, which translates to “Fat asses”.
94m6 TIL that professional bowlers used to out-earn professional football and baseball players.