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TIL Brad Pitt, playing Achilles in Troy (2004), tore his Achilles tendon during production.

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N76jN TIL Harriet Tubman was the first woman to lead an armed assault in the Civil War, leading a raid into South Carolina that rescued 750 enslaved people.
JKyl TIL a man stole $100 million in diamonds, bypassing a 100-million-combination lock, infrared sensors, seismic sensor, and private security force, but was convicted by DNA he’d left on a partially eaten sandwich near the scene.
YAO7 TIL That Banting and Best sold away their rights to profit off insulin for $1 and today it can cost a person living with diabetes as much as $400 a month for their own insulin needed to survive.
4GLJ TIL of Guenter Verheugen, the guy who got mobile phone manufacturers to adopt MicroUSB as the universal standard for charging/connectivity.
PYyMV TIL that during Vostok 4, Russian cosmonaut Pavel Popovich said that he was able to observe thunderstorms from his spacecraft. However, he forgot that the Russian word for thunderstorms was the agreed upon code word for extreme nausea requiring immediate landing, and his mission was cut short.