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TIL that Tony Iommi, of Black Sabbath, accidentally cut off the tips of two fingers on his right hand on his last day of work in a sheet metal factory. He was depressed, until his factory manager told him about Django Reinhardt- a guitarist who had also lost some fingers. It inspired him to play.

ANVAn TIL about Sadako Sasaki (1943–1955). She was two years old when Hiroshima was bombed and was severely irradiated. She survived for another ten years before dying from leukemia caused by radiation exposure. She is remembered for folding over a thousand origami cranes before her death.
dljd TIL that in 2013, someone hacked the Emergency Alert System in Montana. They sent out an alert that the “dead bodies are rising from their graves and attacking the living.” Several people believed it and called 911.
Eg5Ro TIL the V in boulder grades stands for "Vermin"; named after legendary rock climber "Vermin" Sherman. A well known poster of Vermin shows him drinking a beer while free soloing Lord of the Rings (5.13b) in flip-flops.
dDJnZ TIL as of July 2024, only 4 states (NY, Massachusetts, Maryland, & New Jersey) have more landline phone users than those without landline phones
mxXjR TIL: An Afghan tank commander reported to his president that Marxists planned to attack the capital. Subsequently, the President ordered tanks to guard it. The tanks then turned their guns on the palace and ultimately killed the him. The tank commander himself was secretly the Marxist general.