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TIL about Donald Watts, a Florida resident police received calls about and found rolling naked in a muddy ditch. After using 2 stun guns with no effect they called for backup among which was a K9 unit who was ordered to engage Watts but Watts managed to grab the dog by the head and bit him first.

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M7en8 TIL that on the atoll of Pinglelap, 10% of the population is affected by total colorblindness, with another 30% being unaffected carriers of the gene. This is due to a population bottleneck caused by a typhoon in 1775 that left 20 survivors on the atoll. One carried the colorblindness gene.
NwyJ TIL in 1959, three schizophrenics who all thought they were Jesus were forced to live together in the same mental hospital, to test the strength of self-delusion.
nWmGY TIL while trying to perform a magic trick to amuse his children, Isambard Kingdom Brunel (generally cited as one of the most important engineers ever) inhaled a coin which stuck in his windpipe. After a machine Brunel devised failed, his father proposed turning him upside-down, dislodging the coin.
a8DVo TIL that honeyguide birds deliberately lead humans to beehives so that they will harvest the honey and kill or disperse the adult bees, leaving grubs and edible beeswax for the birds.
kOWL7 TIL that One World Trade Center's tenants are mostly technology companies, as opposed to the finance companies that leased the Twin Towers