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TIL The glass harmonica is considered by some to be the world’s most dangerous instrument - Credited with unexplained deaths as well as causing Tinnitus and mental breakdowns

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9YDRQ TIL of Gary Hall Sr, a former Olympic medalist swimmer who became an opthalmologist. He made so many medical errors and was reprimanded so many times that he was banned from surgeries. His medical license was revoked after it was discovered that he performed a surgery following the ban anyway.
XBeD TIL Johnnie Cochrane, when asked if OJ was guilty, said “I wouldn’t believe him if he told me the sun was coming up again tomorrow morning.”
woOJ7 TIL: In 1947, after the Italian bomber corps was disbanded post-WWII, some planes of ambiguous purpose were transferred, pending status clarity, to the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, the sovereign successors of the Knights Hospitaller of Crusader fame. The planes were later returned to Italy.
A9pn TIL A Holocaust Survivor enlisted in the U.S Army, he was later taken P.O.W and kept him and his unit alive by sneaking out and stealing food, a skill he learning while in the Mauthausen concentration camp.
X0neE TIL in the 1960s, gym students at La Sierra High School in CA, faced grueling physical challenges and were ranked by their shorts color: white for rookies, gold for elites, and Navy Blue for the rarest. Navy Blue required 34 pull-ups and carrying someone 5 miles. Only 19 students ever earned it.