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TIL after suffering a brutal attack in 2020, Wanda Palmer woke up from a two-year coma in 2022 and identified her brother, Daniel, as the one who attacked and nearly killed her. He was charged with attempted murder, but died in a hospital after being in jail for five days.

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g9ob TIL that one of the US Navy’s most advanced yet-to-be commissioned missile destroyers is commanded by Captain James Kirk.
6DBX TIL In the summer of 1943 an early copy of the plans for D-Day blew out of a window in Norfolk House, London. A man who was passing by handed them in, saying his sight was too bad to read them.
jN6lR TIL Rob McElhenney from "It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia" willingly gained 50 pounds in preparation for Season 7 of the show. He consumed 5000 calories per day, and only stopped when his doctor said that his lifestyle was putting too much stress on his heart.
1aOk7 TIL that in 1942 a dental surgeon from Pennsylvania USA wrote to the White House suggesting the use of incendiary bombs attached to bats, what ensued was $2 million dollars in research and a burnt down Air Force base.
QN0pd TIL that only two people survived a fall through a cumulonimbus cloud. One of the cases suffered severe frostbite and decompression injuries and was trapped in the cloud for more than 30 minutes.