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TIL of a major league pitcher that was struck by lightning, knocked unconscious but then got up and finished the game

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wLXaM TIL that 56% of the most highly-cited medical research papers in 2005 had results that were never replicated
GYN7N TIL 70 percent of the world’s Macadamia Nuts came from one tree in Australia. All of Hawaii’s macadamias share distinctive markers with a tiny wild grouping of trees in Gympie, suggesting that all of the state’s modern crops were likely cloned out of a single Australian tree.
0wo81 [TIL] Australia is the smallest continent on Earth. Oceania on the other hand is a region made up of thousands of islands in the South Pacific and is not a continent.
BA8W TIL: The child lead of the 1986 film Flight of the Navigator is a convicted bank robber
yQK5v TIL of a surgery with a 300% mortality rate. During an amputation, Dr. Robert Liston accidentally cut his assistant's fingers off and later slashed an observer's coat. The observer, thinking he'd been stabbed, dropped dead of shock, and the patient and assistant died afterwards of infected wounds.