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TIL there was a 14-year old boy who died after the height adjustment cylinder on his chair exploded, shooting metal shrapnel into his rectum.

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awWE9 TIL The idiom see a man about a dog (horse) Is from the 1866 Dion Boucicault play Flying Scud. In the play, a character knowingly breezes past a difficult situation saying, "Excuse me Mr. Quail, I can't stop; I've got to see a man about a dog."
9dQ7 TIL that film is still far superior to digital photography in megapixels. The most expensive consumer digital cameras in the world capture at best 50-60MP while film translates to anywhere between 50MP-800MP.
6WjJ TIL there was a man in 1987 named Kenneth Parks who was acquitted of murder and attempted murder because he was sleepwalking
loMRA TIL that during the Cold War, the CIA could identify KGB cars in the Soviet Union because they used windscreen wipers compared to the rest of the public who didn’t. The KGB continued to use windscreen wipers to maintain a visual on their targets. Especially during bad weather. Link P219
loB8G TIL that blood passes through the kidneys at a rate of 1.1 Liters per minute. The human body has about 5 Liters of blood. This means your entire blood gets filtered by your kidneys every 5 minutes.