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TIL after receiving a local anesthetic and root-canal treatment at his dentist, a 38-yo man has been experiencing a real ‘Groundhog Day’ type memory loss. For the better part of a decade, he has woken up every morning thinking it is the day of his original dentist’s appointment

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D1d5r TIL a total of 173 people, including 62 children, died in a crush on 3 March 1943, when people rushed to enter Bethnal Green station after hearing air-raid sirens in WWII
gMop7 TIL there is a county in Wisconsin called Iowa. Within that county is a town called Wyoming. The full name of the town would be Wyoming, Iowa, Wisconsin.
jNEDn TIL Papa John's was sued for $250+ million for spam texting people in the middle of the night
1aDaD TIL: "The Momsen Lung" was a device used in World War 2 to escape submarines over 100ft deep. It recycled oxygen in your breath while filtering C02. It was used only once, in 1944, by 9 members of the USS Tang after it torpedoed itself and sank in 180 feet of water
6xkw TIl that Alboin, King of the Lombards took his wife Rosamund as a spoil of war after he killed her father in War. At one point he made her drink from her father’s skull, which he kept as a trophy and fashioned into a mug, telling her to “drink merrily with your father.” She had him assassinated.