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TIL there used to be a horse sized duck living in Australia

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0Y5p TIL Richard Marsh is a rare survivor of locked-in syndrome, a condition where a patient can only move his or her eye muscles. During his coma, Richard watched his wife beg doctors not to take him off of life support, and witnessed his own rough handling by the nighttime staff.
neZpB TIL Guinness World Records aren't actual world records, you basically pay for the publicity to be in their book
jNNMN TIL that those white flowers you can blow are in fact the same plants as those yellow flowers you see everywhere.
M9am TIL that in WW2, a Marine Corps Corsair pilot ground off an enemy reconnaissance plane’s tail with his propeller after his guns jammed, while under fire from the enemy plane’s tailgunner. The enemy plane crashed and he made it back to base, receiving the Navy Cross for his actions that day.
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