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TIL about Carl McGunn - Died in 1981 in Alaska when confusion about who was picking him up resulted in him being abandoned to starve

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lxyN TIL Blackbeard fell in a sneak attack by the Royal Navy. With only 19 crew members, he devastated one ship, boarded the other, and disarmed the Captain sent to hunt him. He was mid-killstroke when he had his throat slashed. Examination of his body revealed 5 gunshot wounds and over 20 sword wounds.
KOMvG TIL of a 2015 case of a woman with Dissociative Identity Disorder who had some blind personalities. Even with her eyes open, EEG showed brain activity associated with sight was absent when a blind alter was in control. When a sighted alter assumed control, visual brain activity returned
LQ0mP TIL: At 13, Waris Dirie fled her family in the Somali desert to escape an arranged marriage to a 60-year-old man. She made it to London and worked at Mcdonald's when she agreed to model for a photographer. She became a supermodel, appeared in a Bond movie & became a world-famous voice against FGM.
9Y9op TIL that Tiger Moths can jam bat sonar by making ultrasonic clicks, disrupting their ability to hunt prey
wLe5E TIL that Aladdin animator Randy Cartwright described working on the Magic Carpet as challenging, since it is only a rectangular shape, that expresses itself through pantomime. Cartwright kept folding a piece of cloth while animating to see how to position the Carpet.