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TIL George Carlin was nearly aborted, but his mother change her mind minutes before the procedure.

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goQ9 TIL there is a black hole 250 million light years away emitting a low B-flat 57 octaves below middle C on a piano.
JDpj TIL Scientology has a child labor camp in the heart of Suburban Australia, where children are separated from their parents, and forced to work full time for no pay.
LQYyp TIL that a Saudi Arabian man called Khalid bin Mohsen Shaari went from 1,340 (610 kg) pounds in August 2013 to 710 pounds (320 kg) in six months. By November 2017, he was 150 pounds (68 kg) and is still alive today.
jDln TIL that Amazon was initially named ‘Cadabra’, this was only changed when a lawyer misheard the name as 'cadaver’.
oBK4o TIL Obsidian can be made into surgical scalpels by flint knapping, creating an edge only one molecule wide and the edge is so smooth and sharp it can cut between cells.