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TIL in 1993 Donald Wyman amputated his left leg below the knee with a pocket knife after it got stuck under a large tree during a logging accident where he bled profusely for an hour & feared he'd die. However, he was even able to keep his leg after firefighters retrieved it & surgeons reattached it

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yQ7ow TIL Sihanoukville is Cambodia's sole deep water port. The French colonial administration preferred to use Saigon for international trade and the Mekong River for further distribution. Thus Cambodia's access to high sea's trade was via the Mekong which required passage through Vietnamese territory
VBZQp TIL a woman had half of her brain removed when she was 8 due to a condition that caused her to have up to 150 seizures a day. Her doctors said she'd never drive, she got her license at 17. She went on to earn her bachelor's & master's degrees in just 5 years before becoming a speech pathologist.
JYnZm TIL that Kent released a cigarette in 1952 with a filter made out of asbestos (branded as a "micronite filter"). they sold 13 billion of these cigarettes before being discontinued in 1956 and they are suspected of causing many mesothelioma cases
P1eRw TIL about Callon of Epidaurus, who underwent the first recorded sex reassignment surgery in the 2nd century BC and then socially transitioned from a priestess to a man.
pYQwb TIL Sony used air mortars to shoot 250,000 bouncy balls down San Francisco hills for a commercial instead of using CGI in 2005. They broke $74,000 worth of windows.