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TIL in 2006 a man went to a hospital complaining about a headache & was found to have 12 nails (up to 2 inches in length) embedded in his skull from a suicide attempt. Although the nails did not pierce any major blood vessel or the brain stem & he survived with no serious lasting physical effects.

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LkdpP TIL about Queen Soraya of Afghanistan who fought hard to improve the rights of women in the 1920's. She was also the minister of education for Afghanistan and the first Muslim consort to appear in public with her husband. In 1929 her husband was deposed and all their reforms were undone.
vPjOx TIL in 2021, detailed credentials for more than 21 million mobile VPN app users were advertised for sale online by a cyberthief. The data included email addresses, randomly generated password strings, and payment information, belonging to users of three VPN apps—SuperVPN, GeckoVPN, and ChatVPN
6oel TIL nearly 200 years before turducken became popular, there was the Rôti Sans Pareil: a bustard stuffed with a turkey-goose-pheasant-chicken-duck-guinea fowl-teal-woodcock-partridge-plover-lapwing-quail-thrush-lark-ortolan-bunting and garden warbler, the last being just big enough to hold an olive.
QNe09 TIL places as far as Yemen, Oman and Dubai were legally part of India under the British Empire's Interpretation Act of 1889 and people there were even issued Indian (Empire) passports.
bp17 TIL: Ohio shames drivers convicted of a DUI with special yellow license plates