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TIL Wade Hampton III allegedly killed 80 black bears using only a knife. He would corner the bear, make it charge then dart to the side and stab it in the heart.

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v15n8 TIL surgeons at a Dental College in India removed a "well-defined bag-like mass" from the jaw of a 7-year-old boy. It weighed 7 ounces and contained 526 teeth. It took a medical team five hours to meticulously search through and count all of them.
kOPjB TIL The total amount of gold mined in human history is approx 166,500 tonnes. If it was all melted it would fit in an Olympic size pool.
7pVx TIL- the old lady in the “McDonald’s Hot Coffee Case” suffered severe 3rd degree burns on 6% of her body and needed skin grafts. The media blew it up to favor tort reform and the settlement in the case was the calculation of coffee sales McDonalds made in two days.
QJ7md TIL: Lenovo is owned by the Chinese Government (30% shares) and no longer IBM (18.9% shares)
VMQm0 TIL In WW2, the USA and UK combined only lost 790,000 men, wheres the Soviets lost as many as 11,400,000 with Germany at 5,300,000 and the Chinese has the 3rd highest losses at 4,000,000.