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TIL A 16 month old boy’s head was internally decapitated in a car accident, but doctors were able to re-attached his head and he survived.

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gr8rD TIL that we don't REALLY know who invented coffee, though we know its origins in and around the Arabian peninsula in the 15th century
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p5KA TIL Mao Zedong killed 4.5x more people than Hitler did
A40d TIL that in the 1880s, a man tried to make a living by jumping off bridges to gain fame and recognition. After he died penniless jumping off a low bridge on a drunken bet, his mother was quoted as saying: “I told him that jumping off bridges was a poor way of earning a living.”
0ddM TIL That cats can survive landing at terminal velocity, meaning (most of the time) they can survive a fall from any height