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TIL that Diarrhea killed approximately as many people as HIV and AIDS in 2012

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JVGv TIL that Bear Grylls was the first person to summit Mt. Everest after breaking a vertebrae. He also was the youngest Brit to summit at 23 in 1997, and flew over the summit with a powered paraglider in 2003.
w9Qo TIL in 2004, doctors treating a virginal Japanese woman discovered an ovarian tumor that had grown into the form of a doll and had a brain, eye, spinal nerve, ear, teeth, thyroid gland, bone, bone marrow, gut, trachea, and blood vessels.
AN7Dx TIL Sardines are named after the italian island of Sardinia
KlGG TIL Facebook is blue because Mark Zuckerberg is colorblind and sees blue best.
Q0DX TIL that 5 men volunteered to stand directly under a nuclear bomb that detonated 18,500 ft above them [Video Inside]