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TIL that while serving in Cyprus, a British Army Lance Corporal named Billy Windsor head-butted another solder on parade in front of dignitaries from several nations. He was charged and demoted to Fusilier, but was later reinstated, with full mess privileges. Billy Windsor is a fucking goat.

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6EkDJ TIL a sea lion named Rhonda once escaped from an urban zoo in Providence, RI and was never recovered. She made her way through a few park lakes, traveled over two miles on land, scaled small walls and got to a river that flowed into a bay and eventually the ocean.
QJNeX TIL there's a surgery that claims to change the color of your eyes. The surgery involves taking a laser and burning away the melanin layer of your iris. Over the course of a few weeks, your eyes naturally turn from brown to blue as the damaged melanin is removed by your body.
9XYG TIL that in 1599, a Spanish governor in early colonial Ecuador was executed by having molten gold poured down his throat.
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b9NMZ TIL G.H Hardy came up with a scale of mathematical ability that went from 0 to 100. He put himself at 25. David Hilbert, the great German mathematician, was at 80. Ramanujan was 100. When he died in 1920 at the age of 32, he left behind three notebooks that still inspire mathematical work today