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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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QJWDL TIL A Catholic Priest, Georges Lemaître, was first to propose what became known as the Big Bang theory. The origin of the universe, which he called his "hypothesis of the primeval atom" or the "Cosmic Egg." And was first to derive what is now known as Hubble's law.
jNWlp TIL the Okinawa Islands were home to the Ryukyu Kingdom, which was culturally & politically distinct from Japan. Though its languages were related (though unintelligible to) Japanese, they were seen as a foreign people with a different culture, before it was annexed into Japan & mostly assimilated.
leWG TIL that there is now a microwave that can cool things down.
5kdB TIL that in Welsh folklore, woodland fairies rode on the backs of corgis. A corgi’s markings were said to come from the harnesses and saddles that were used to mount them.
owoY TIL - in 1910, President Roosevelt supported a bill that would have released hippopotamuses into Louisiana to eat an invasive plant species and to provide delicious hippo bacon to hungry Americans.