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TIL German goalkeeper Bert Trautman suffered a broken neck in a cup final, but played the rest of the match. Prince Phillip commented on his crooked neck when giving him the winner’s medal

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4kDZN TIL There is a very rare disorder called Alien Hand Syndrome (AHS) that makes one or both of your limbs act independently as if they are controlled by someone else’s brain. Say your right hand is writing a note when all the sudden your left hand starts to suffocate you.
rxMw TIL that during the Falklands war, the British Navy mistook whales for submarines and torpedoed them
m15Py TIL that famous children’s author Shel Silverstein (Where the Sidewalks Ends, The Giving Tree) wrote Johnny Cash’s famous song A Boy Named Sue.
1aRkD TIL Jimmy Carter was the first President born in a hospital.
KOKa6 TIL about Superhabitable planets. This is a recent definition/category of planets or moons that must meet much more criteria than just being in the "Habitable Zone/Goldilocks Zone". No planet or moon has met these criteria as of yet, although the planet Kepler-442b is the closest to this definition.