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TIL a Bill Ripken baseball card with the words “fuck face” written on the bat he’s holding went into circulation unnoticed.

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LQdYP TIL a Costa Rican fisherman once nursed a crocodile back to health after it was shot in the head. The reptile, named 'Pocho', was released back into the wild but followed the man home and slept on his porch. For the next 20 years, Pocho became a part of the man's family.
6ENnX TIL Neil Harbisson is the first person in the world with an antenna implanted in his skull and officially recognized as a cyborg by a government.
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xnAb TIL of Roy Sullivan, a man who was struck by lightning seven times. He started to believe that he attracted lightning, and sometimes even reported seeing clouds following him. He eventually shot himself in the head at age 71.
8RD4 Today I learned that there is a clock in New Zealand that has been running continuously despite only being wound once in 1864.