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TIL in 2014 a British sniper in Afghanistan killed six insurgents with a single bullet after hitting the trigger switch of a suicide bomber whose device then exploded.

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Dx8Y TIL a mental disorder called Cotard’s Syndrome (also known as the Cotard Delusion, the Nihilistic Delusion, and the Walking Corpse Syndrome) causes sufferers to believe that they are dead and do not exist.
W7NkL TIL: The humble and magnificent chocolate chip cookie is less than 100 years old.
rNYdo TIL: "This is fine" might soon become a LEGO set
ADb9B TIL "Closing Time" by Semisonic is not just about people leaving a bar at closing time. Drummer Jacob Slichter has also indicated that the song was written by Dan Wilson "in anticipation of fatherhood" & that it is about "being sent forth from the womb as if by a bouncer clearing out a bar."
WkW59 TIL that the 17 y/o sole survivor of a plane that exploded in midair over a Peruvian forest, fell 10,000 ft strapped to her seat and only received a concussion and popped eye capillaries. She swam/floated down a river for 10 days and was mistaken for a river spirit by her eventual local rescuers.