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TIL that in July 1917, the “Red Baron” sustained a head wound during aerial combat that knocked him unconscious. As his plane was spinning back to Earth, he came to and was able to make a rough landing.

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rNy6o TIL the 1971 film "Wake In Fright" follows a man stranded in an isolated outback town whose residents are consumed by binge drinking and gambling. During the film's early screening in Sydney, an offended viewer shouted, "That's not us!" One of the actors yelled back "Sit down, mate. It is us."
MegQA TIL that almost 30% of people in the world are obese or overweight.
p864N TIL that people didn’t use to sleep for a straight 8 hours. Before electric lights and street lamps, people would sleep from ~8 to midnight, wake up, and then sleep from ~2 to sunrise. They’d use their couple of midnight hours to pray, read, or have sex
oBeVo TIL A new study has revealed that African countries such as Chad and Mali have some of the healthiest diets in the world, while the people in European countries including Belgium, Lativa and Hungary eat the worst
KOLrB TIL that the flower in Mr. Wilson’s yard from Dennis the Menace (1993), that only blooms once every 10-20 years is real and smells like dead rotting animals.