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TIL Elon Musk was bullied alot during school. He was once sent to hospital after bullies threw him down stairs and kicked him until he was unconscious.

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gMmED TIL that the word "bangarang", made famous by the film Hook, is Jamaican slang for, "riot, disturbance, or mischief."
1akX8 TIL The Ceratodontimorpha is a "living fossil" fish with a highly specialized respiratory system to switch from gills to real lung when it crawls on dry land. They are also capable of surviving seasonal drying by burrowing into mud, secrete a mucus which encloses them in a cocoon...for years.
baZZ TIL the costume worn by Star Trek’s Seven of Nine had to be modified after an error was made measuring the original. The bad fit cut off the blood supply from her carotid artery, causing her to pass out twice and require medical intervention. The costume was modified to stop it from happening again.
n8kr TIL A 17 yr old girl was the sole survivor of an airplane that was struck by lightning. While still strapped to her seat, she fell 2 miles (3km) from the aircraft and landed down into the Amazon rainforest, where she trekked through the jungle for 10 days until she was rescued by local lumbermen.
nWkYB TIL only 46 votes out of the 5,722,440 votes cast in the 1868 US Presidential Election were for someone other than Ulysses S. Grant or Horatio Seymour