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TIL area of medicine devoted to farts is called flatology

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p8eQA TIL That In 1996 during an SAS training exercise 21 year old Bear Grylls broke his back after falling from 16,000 feet due to a torn parachute. His surgeon said it was questionable whether he would ever walk again. 2 years later he climbed Mt. Everest
a4ZZ TIL Nikola Tesla held an interview in 1899 claiming everything is the light and that light preceded matter in the cosmic timeline.
QNRrd TIL of the RP FLIP, an open ocean research vessel owned by the US Office of Naval Research. It is a one of a kind vessel capable of flipping orientation from horizontal to vertical by filling/emptying an incredibly long water reservoir.
4Xklw TIL of Joe Arridy, a mentally ill man wrongfully sentenced to death in the 1930's. While on death row, he played with toy trains, requested ice cream for his last meal and, while being taken to the gas chamber, smiled and told the warden, "No no, Joe won't die"
1Y87 TIL Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen has found the wreckage of 1 of Japan’s largest battleships after an 8 year long search.The 73,000-ton “Musashi” was 1 of the most powerful battleships ever built. “Its discovery will… bring closure to the families of those lost."Allen said.