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TIL Stephen Colbert lost his father and 2 brothers in a plane crash when he was just 10 years old. Although he was aimless as a teenager, barely graduating high school, he later learned to accept the event and credits it with making him the comedian he is today saying “I learned to love it”.

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69WOX TIL John Salling was recognized as Virginia’s last surviving Confederate veteran and lived to 1959 at claimed age of 112. Later census research showed that Salling was born in 1858 rather than 1846 and Virginia State Library didn't have his war records
KYLew TIL that the Tetrahymena thermophila, a single-celled ciliated unicellular eukaryote, has 7 different sexes. Any two different sexes can mate and produce offspring, and the sex of the offspring can be any of the 7 different types. This allows for 21 different mating combinations.
BeVL TIL that a live nuclear bomb was ejected over the coast of Georgia, USA. The B-47 plane carrying it was hit by another plane, and the bomb was ejected to prevent detonation during the crash. The bomb was never found and still lies somewhere near the coast.
6EaY TIL the town of “Fucking, Austria” modified their signs in 2005 to be theft resistant
E1w8W TIL that in 1712 a swiss doctor found a skeleton that he thought was a human who died in the flood of Noah. In 1826, George's Cuvier, one of the founders of paleontology, reexamined it. It turned out to be a giant salamander.