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TIL In 2008, Mike Schultz, a pro snowmobile racer, had his left leg amputated above the knee. Seven months later, he was zooming around on a dirt bike wearing a prosthetic leg that he designed and built himself. X Games 8x gold medalist motocross snowcross and Gold Silver paralympic Snowboarding.

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4k9k5 TIL there's a metal band with a parrot as their vocalist.
Ry0a TIL Harold Fairweather, age 96, is believed to be the oldest person to still have a living parent. His mother Violet Brown is 116 years old and her age is recognized by the Guinness Book of Records.
E1bM7 TIL In an attempt to make McDonald’s food 'more healthy,' some of its nutrient-enhanced meals are actually worse for you than junk food. Most notably, McDonald’s Kale salad is the most outrageous offender, with more calories, fat, and sodium than a Double Big Mac burger.
4XVEN TIL that the scene with Morgan Freeman throwing a baseball in ‘The Shawshank Redemption’ took over nine hours to shoot. Freeman didn’t complain once throughout the entire ordeal, showed up the next day with his arm in a sling, and continued shooting.
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