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TIL President Carter "fended off a killer rabbit" that swam out to attack him.

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BBrL TIL that Imgur serves more images in 10 minutes than there are in the entire Library of Congress.
a84rM TIL that after filing a lawsuit for assault against UFC fighter Conor McGregor in 2022, which left her with a broken arm, a Dublin woman had her car set ablaze outside of her home, and later, had a brick thrown through her window. The woman subsequently dropped her suit against Conor McGregor
0E0j TIL Africanized bee, known as Killer bees, are breed hybrids that accidentally escaped lab quarantine and since then have spread throughout the Americas.
pMZO TIL the first known illegal act on the internet was committed in 1973 by one of the first ARPANET engineers. He sent a request for return of his electric razor following a conference in England. At that time, personal use of the internet was unlawful.
4XXdo TIL in 2007, a 73-year-old man underwent surgery and suffered "anesthesia awareness" -- a condition where the patient is conscious and feels pain but is paralyzed and cannot alert the surgeon. The man's resulting PTSD led him to suicide, prompting a lawsuit against the anesthesiologists.