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TIL in October 1966, a soldier named Nguyen Van Leong, of South Vietnam, had an unexploded motor shell lodge in his chest, he was carried into the U.S. Navy Hospital, utmost precaution was used, the operation was a success, he survived & the bomb did not explode

AN7J7 TIL of the proposed Overwhelmingly Large Telescope, whose 100m aperture would have allowed it to see objects 1500x fainter than the Hubble Telescope and analyze extrasolar planets for molecules indicating life. It was cancelled due to the €1.5 billion cost being too high
R7XN9 TIL that the little "light" dots that sometimes fly around in your vision are called "blue-sky sprites" and its part of a phenomenon called "Blue Field Entopic Phenomenon" where white blood cells are moving in the capillaries in-front of your retina.
XJgE TIL Between 1960 and 2010, the world population rose from 3 billion to 6.8 billion. In other words, there has been more growth in population in the last fifty years than the previous 2 million years that humans have existed.
yVPdX TIL about Floyd Allen from Carroll County, VA who was sentenced to one year in jail. Rather than go to jail, Allen and his family pulled out guns in the courthouse and killed the Judge, the sheriff, the prosecutor and 2 others in a violent shoot out. Allen was later executed for his escape attempt.
ADyyB TIL The Chicago Bears are named after the Chicago Cubs! They originally shared a stadium. Footballers are bigger than baseball players so Bears are bigger than Cubshence the name! Heard those names a hundred times and never put it together.