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TIL of a Jehovah’s Witness who was temporarily incapacitated following a car accident. Her doctor transfused her with blood which saved her life, despite knowing she had signed a card requesting this not be done. Following her recovery she successfully sued the doctor for battery.

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6EObX TIL that the Soviets realised that the Americans and British were developing an atomic bomb when they noticed that Western scientists had ceased publishing papers on nuclear science. Correctly guessing that nuclear science had been made a state secret, they began their own program
xr97 TIL even today, Canadian strongman Louis Cyr still holds some of the greatest feats of strength in recorded history, such as lifting 600 pounds with one hand and lifting over 4300 pounds on his back in the form of 18 adult men sitting on a platform.
Jjk4 TIL according to Nordic legend a preferred execution method of old, The Blood Eagle, involved opening the victims back, breaking the ribs along the spine to form bloody eagle wings and removing the lungs through the wounds.
mPWv TIL that if space were full of air, the sun would be louder than a train horn from 3 feet away
1AgX TIL between 1970 and 1973, four Israeli fighter pilots translated The Hobbit from English to Hebrew to pass the time in an Egyptian prison, where they were held as POWs. The pilots’ translation was published commercially in 1977, and up until 2012 was considered the best Hebrew version of the book.