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TIL there was a girl who locked alone in a room for most of her first thirteen years, who never successfully learned a language. She is now 56 years old.

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Me5KA TIL that US submarine torpedos in WW II often failed to detonate due to faulty design of their firing pins. To correct the problem, Pearl Harbor workshops designed and mass produced new firing pins from the propeller blades of Japanese aircraft downed in the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
6ZQJ TIL Dennis Wilson of the Beach Boys picked up the tab for the Manson Family’s gonorrhea treatment.
dDDYE TIL That according to some Astronomers the best way to view the Earth and the Moon is not as a planet and a satellite but as a binary planet system
X0VE TIL that bungie has a security guard that uses a gravity hammer as a weapon to guard their front door
R5DO9 TIL of the Tlatelo Massacre ahead of the '68 Olympics where Mexican Army Intelligence shot the Army General in charge of the troops providing security in a false flag operation blaming the students so the army opened fire on student protestors.