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TIL that an Australian man was declared dead for 14 minutes. He was revived and after leaving hospital he bought a lottery ticket and won a $27K car. While filming a news piece on his “good luck” be bought a lotter ticket to reenact the car win and he THEN won a $250K jackpot. Lucky much?

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4XdRb TIL that the man that was not saluting to Hitler in the famous photograph was August Landmesser. After imprisonment, a failed attempt of fleeing to Denmark with his family, his Jewish wife dying in the Holocaust, he was drafted into a penal battalion where he was killed in action.
eR0b TIL an episode of Rocko’s Modern Life taking place 17 years in the future aired 17 years ago on this date
17WV TIL you shouldn’t breathe on your lens to clean it, your breath contains harmful acids that could damage the lens coating. (x-post from Photography)
VOe4 TIL As a boy, Michael Bay attached some firecrackers to a toy train and filmed the ensuing fiery disaster with his mother’s 8 millimeter camera. The fire department was called and he was grounded
bx9p TIL the stimulating effects of coffee were first observed in the 9th century by goat herders who noticed their goats started ‘dancing’ after eating coffee berries.