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TIL 7.3 percent of all living Americans have served in the military at some point in their lives.

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nW5AW TIL Will Smith turned down Django because “Violence begets violence”
remM TIL An American gymnast with a wooden leg won six medals, including three gold, in a single day at the 1904 Olympics. He was the only Olympian to have competed with a prosthetic limb for the next 100 years, until 2008.
X0M1k TIL a man named Gary Ashbrook died after suffocation by a condom. He was looking for new sexual thrills, but ended up dead, suffocated by a condom. Gary was found dead naked, next to three empty cans of nitrous oxide which he used to inflate the condom and put it over his head.
eplWk TIL there have been 34 prison escapes using helicopters (and another 14 failed attempts). The record holder is French criminal Pascal Payet, who has escaped prison by helicopter three times.
epE04 TIL Si Ouey, allegedly the first serial killer in modern Thailand, may have been an innocent scapegoat accused of child cannibalism.