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TIL Macaulay Culkin's legal name is "Macaulay Macaulay Culkin Culkin."

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QJQaX TIL about Dr. Leonard Baily, who in 1984 transplanted a baboon heart into a dying infant known as Baby Fae. Baby Fae lived for another three weeks after the procedure.
nWD9G TIL that in 2005, Brazilian thieves dug a 78-meter tunnel into a bank vault and stole $70 million — without firing a single shot.
4eYa TIL than an 80 year old Russian once fought a bear with a flurry of punches, kicks, and headbutts before the bear threw him off of a cliff. He survived.
W4jX TIL once Astronaut Ed Mitchell was asked how it’s like to stand on the moon, he said “From out there on the moon, international politics look so petty. You want to grab a politician by the scruff of the neck and drag him a quarter of a million miles out and say, Look at that, you son of a bitch.”
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