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TIL thst u/kakkerlak saved u/Rbradbury1920 life by figuring out that u/Rbradbury1920 may have CO poisining

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x6L90 TIL that there are a total of 33 places named Aberdeen worldwide
P65V TIL During WWII, when he realised his guns had malfunctioned, an RAF pilot prevented a German bomber from bombing Buckingham Palace by cutting the German plane in half with the wing of his Hawker Hurricane.
WkEMX TIL that Elvis Presley‘s autopsy report will not be released until the year 2027, on the fiftieth anniversary of his death
m1awx TIL River Phoenix, the actor who played Chris Chambers in the 1986 film, Stand By Me was supposed to play Jack Dawson instead of Leanardo DiCaprio in Titanic before his overdose death in 1993
BA0L TIL that India sent a spacecraft to Mars for $74 million - less than it cost to make the movie ‘Gravity’