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TIL that a woman named Gaby Olthuis suffered from tinnitus (ringing in the ears) to such an extent that she opted for doctor assisted suicide

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J1Ynv TIL in 1944, an American named Robert Earl Hughes was drafted into the US Army. At the time, he weighed over 700 pounds and was able to walk without any assistance. He served 21 months.
rY0y TIL - Singer James Blunt (You’re beautiful) credibly prevented a large scale confrontation between NATO and Russia
mVnp TIL That if the the entire world population of 6.9 billion lived in a single city as dense as Paris, it would only take up as much space as Arkansas, Mississippi and Louisiana.
kJ6wm TIL Philippe Peythieu is the French voice of Homer Simpson and dubs Danny Devito.
ploZ TIL in 1887, a mathematician received a prize for his work on the stability of the solar system. A year later, after finding an error in his own work, he published a paper contradicting it, which led to the development of chaos theory.