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TIL a mentally ill man shot himself in the head as a suicide attempt. The bullet cured his disorder and he became a straight-A college student.

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baV4 TIL that before he joined Queen, John Deacon (the bassist) was a trained electronics engineer. He used these skills to build an amplifier from electronic equipment he found in a dumpster. It became known as the “Deacy Amp” and, along with Brian May’s guitar, was a key component of Queen’s sound.
Om8L TIL of Anti-Monopoly, a game designed to show how hurtful monopolies can be to a free-enterprise system. The board starts off looking like a game of Monopoly had just been completed, and the aim is to return the board to the free market system.
W1xA TIL the legend of the chupacabra only dates back to 1995
RWMw TIL of the great filter theory. Which suggests the reason we can’t find advanced civilizations in our galaxy. Is because there is some factor or process preventing them from arising or prospering.
oRkkE TIL that in 1996, Bindu Jua, a female gorilla in Brookfield zoo cradled a 3 year old child, who fell into her enclosure and broke his arm, with much care until he received medical attention