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TIL Sean Bean survives more than he dies.

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bdWa TIL of Charles Alvin Beckwith, creator of the U.S. Army’s Delta Force unit. He once contracted leptospirosis so severe the doctors did not expect him to live; he made a full recovery in months. He was later critically wounded by a .50 round and expected to die. Within months, he fully recovered.
OG1VL TIL Martha Wash's voice was used on the 1990 song “Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)” by C+C Music Factory, however she went uncredited & did not receive royalties at the time. Wash, who is described as "full figured", was also replaced by a model lip-syncing her vocals in the music video.
X0e4X TIL that Capcom made a video game in about 1990 titled "The California Raisins: The Grape Escape", which went unreleased, despite being largely finished, due to the titular characters losing popularity, after there was a decline in raisin sales
XaaR TIL Robert Heft designed the 50 star American Flag in 1958 as a 17 year old for a high school class project. He received a B-, though it was changed to an A after his flag design was chosen and adopted by presidential proclamation after Alaska and before Hawaii were admitted into the union.
grAGL Today I learned Zambia, I country in Southern Africa tried to go to Mars in an oil drum