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TIL actor Ed Helms had open-heart surgery at age 13 to correct a severe congenital heart defect, which he described as supravalvular aortic and pulmonic stenosis. His surgery lasted nine hours and he was kept in intensive care unit for one week after

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nePYB TIL the term "out of the blue" originates from lightning strikes out of the clear blue sky.
oB8do TIL Sir Michael Caine is a Korean War veteran who saw front line action serving with the British Army's Royal Fusiliers until 1954. He talks about it in this audio clip and it's fairly harrowing.
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