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TIL One Of The Media’s Favorite “Millennials” To Quote Is Actually a 55-Year-Old Lying About His Age

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mx08P TIL that surgeons used to try to speed run their operations - in one instance resulting in a 300% mortality rate for a leg amputation (done in under 2:30)
1aGkP TIL Marvel's near collapse led to dominance. In The 90’s they desperately sold film rights to their characters for operating capital. A few hits(Blade & X-Men) led studios to consider the comic movie viable. Failure by most caused many of the rights to return to Marvel, who created Marvel Studios.
AD0a4 TIL that Dr. Thomas Midgely, inventor of both leaded-gasoline and chlorofluorocarbon with the best of intentions, devised an ingenious system of pulleys and strings to pull his polio-stricken body out of bed, which tangled around his neck, and killed him.
RMg1 TIL that there was a Navy Seal so elite, they created his own unit just for him. And he kidnapped Admirals and infiltrated US military bases. His name, Richard Marcinko.
PYeBg TIL a Florida man who tried to electrocute his pregnant wife was caught when he prematurely changed his Facebook status to "widowed".