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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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KYMjB TIL that Lewis Stone, who played Mickey Rooney's kindly old father in the Andy Hardy films, died of a heart attack while chasing the neighborhood kids off his lawn.
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xVPXo TIL that black olives are just ripe green olives.
MeoDA TIL Charles Lindbergh was a fascist and made several trips to nazi Germany in the 1930’s to inspect its Air Force. President Roosevelt privately called him a nazi.
NBQP TIL a pack of man-eating wolves ate 40 people in Paris in 1450 before finally being defeated by citizens on the steps of Notre Dame. The leader of the pack was named Courtaud.