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TIL that upon baseball player Ted Williams' death his body was frozen in liquid nitrogen in two different pieces

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XExpr TIL about Roy Cleveland Sullivan also called Human lightning Rod ,a park ranger(at Virginia) who was hit by lightning SEVEN times and he survived ALL of them.The odds of getting hit by lightning is 1 out of 13,500.He commited suicide at the age of 71 by gunshot.
oRdLR TIL Prisoners in Birkenau concentration camp during Nazi Germany had better chances of survival (60%) if they worked in the latrines. Nazi officials avoided those areas, reducing the risk of abuse. Workers could also recover food other prisoners' vomit, gain privileged info, and receive bribes.
5YknB TIL that architecture was a field of mathematics in much of the ancient world and many of the best know ancient buildings were designed by mathematicians
oRRmR TIL that John Cena chose to act in all three "Fred" movies on Nickelodeon because he thought that the character's popularity was a cultural milestone and that Lucas Cruikshank's (the main actor) quick rise from posting on YouTube to getting a movie deal was the embodiment of the American Dream.
4XAo6 TIL Werner Forssmann, a physician, risked his own life to show that cardiac catheterization could work. He cut a hole in his arm and inserted a catheter into a vein, not knowing if the catheter might pierce a vein. He was later awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine.