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TIL that an indian doctor Murugappa Modi did 833 cataract surgeries in single day!

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VDyB TIL that the Italian government constructed a dam in 1959 despite multiple warnings of the instability of the region. In 1963, a landslide into the reservoir behind the dam triggered a tsunami over 800 ft high that breached the dam and killed nearly 2000 people, leaving a 200 ft deep impact crater.
LMQ9 TIL that during the 2011 Tucson shooting when the gunman stopped to reload, a 61 y/o woman grabbed his magazine while another bystander clubbed the back of his head with a folding chair. The gunman was finally tackled to the ground by a 74 y/o retired United States Army Colonel who had been shot.