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TIL after having his arms ripped off by a tractor, a teenager called for help using a pencil in his teeth, and then sat in the bathtub so he wouldn’t get blood on the new carpet

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WOMB TIL the Tampa Bay Lightning (NHL team) installed two Tesla coils in its stadium in 2011, just so they could shoot lightning whenever they scored a goal.
nWna9 TIL that Adolphe Sax, the son of instrument designers, was prone to accidents. As a kid, he fell from a 3-story height, drank acidic water he mistook for milk, swallowed a pin, fell into a frying pan, was burned in a gunpowder blast, and fell into a river. He grew up to invent the saxophone.
rZ64 TIL The maximum speed ever recorded on a public road was set in 1938 and still stands today at - 268mph
r5e4 TIL in the 1960’s oilmen would shoot flaming arrows to relight gas tower flames.
oRwY7 TIL the show the adventures of Ozzie and Harriet 1952-1966 has the most episodes of any live action sitcom ever 435