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TIL: There's a Planet Where it Rains Molten Glass Sideways at 5,400 mph

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8xb8 TIL Don Karkos lost his eyesight due to shrapnel from a grenade in WWII. 64 years later he was kicked in the head by a horse in the exact spot the shrapnel had been. Which cause him to regain his eyesight.
ggVA TIL: After the battle of Waterloo in 1815, scavengers pulled so many teeth from the 50,000 dead soldiers, they caused the price of false teeth to fall in Britain to an affordable rate for the middle class.
7er TIL In order to be accepted into the Kumbai tribe, you must have a penis inversion (putting it back inside!).
bvga TIL that 40.8% of children born in the US in 2010 were to unmarried women.
pYep4 TIL that the Sojourner Mars rover is named after African American abolitionist Sojourner Truth through an essay contest and not because it was a temporary traveler, or sojourner, to Mars.