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TIL former WWE wrestler Kurt Angle fractured two vertebrae during the 1996 Olympic Trials, herniating two discs and pulling four muscles, but still went on to win the trials and five months later take home the gold medal in freestyle wrestling at the 1996 Olympics.

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Eg0Ow TIL in January 2017, Mark Zuckerberg filed eight "quiet title and partition" lawsuits against hundreds of native Hawaiians to claim small tracts of land which they owned on the island of Kauai. This land is contained within the 700 acres of land that Zuckerberg had purchased in 2014.
8aWoZ TIL that because of the amount of ice it sits on, the South Pole actually has an elevation of 9,300 ft. (2800m) and people have had to be evacuated due to altitude sickness.
ANWDo TIL about the "Man of the Hole", the last survivor of an indigenous group in Brazil. He had lived in total isolation for 26 years after the massacre of his tribe before passing away in 2022.
WkAPX TIL that "piggy" bank originally had nothing to do with pigs. "Pygg," in Olde English, was a type of clay used to make jars, containers..., and coin banks. It was also pronounced like "pug." As time passed, the "y" in "pygg" was pronounced like a short "I," and the rest is history.
P64E TIL that England used to have a “window tax”. People refused to disclose how much money they made, considering it an invasion of privacy - so you would be charged based on how many windows your house had. In retaliation, people bricked up their windows, which you can still see today.